From [HERE] and [MORE] and [MORE] An elderly Black man who was beaten in jail after being arrested on false charges by city police was awarded $500,000 to settle a pending lawsuit.  The plaintiff, Aubrey Knox lost a kidney after the brutal beating. Baltimore's spending panel agreed on Wednesday to pay $500,000 to Mr. Knox and his wife Lena Knox after police arrested them on dubious charges of kidnapping their own grandson — and the grandfather was severely beaten in the city's Central Booking and Intake Facility. The Knox's charged that they were not only subjected to a police search of their house, but intrusive interrogations, threats and false imprisonment.

Aubrey Knox, 60, and Lena Knox, 58, of Northwest Baltimore, sued four police officers over the 2007 arrests, claiming they were illegally arrested and that Aubrey Knox was not protected from other inmates while in custody of jail officials. In a memo to the Board of Estimates this week, Deputy City Solicitor David E. Ralph wrote that Aubrey Knox suffered "serious" injuries, and that the city's law department had concerns about "whether there were sufficient facts" for the arrest in the first place.