From [HERE] The city of Seattle has paid $34,000 to settle a federal civil-rights lawsuit filed by a mentally disturbed man who was beaten with fists, batons, flashlights and shocked with a Taser by Seattle police after he had been mistakenly released from jail.

The videotaped arrest of Daniel Macio Saunders in the foyer of the Police Department's evidence room in Georgetown in June 2009 was among the incidents cited by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington in requesting a Department of Justice civil-rights investigation. The investigation determined that officers routinely used excessive force.

A police-surveillance camera showed Saunders inside the small foyer when a police officer arrived and tapped on the glass of the door. Saunders got up and walked over and opened the door for the officer, who rushed in and tried to grab Saunders, who backed away.

He was taken to the floor as two more officers quickly followed. For the next three minutes, the video shows the officers struggling with Saunders while they repeatedly hit him with their fists, batons and a flashlight.

The officers, in court documents, said they used a Taser on him at least four times. The video shows him being taken away on a stretcher. He was unarmed and had made no threatening movements or statements toward police.  He was treated for bruises, abrasions and a forehead cut that required numerous stitches, Saunders and Andrew Magee, his attorney, said in a 2010 interview.