Overview
- A settlement announced Tuesday gives Eric André and Clayton English a combined $30,000 payment and confirms Clayton County has shut down the disputed airport policing program.
- The county agreed to require body-worn cameras and training on constitutional limits for officers assigned to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
- The lawsuit, filed in October 2022, alleged officers used racial profiling and coercive, public searches on jet bridges that singled out Black passengers.
- Court filings cited 402 jet-bridge stops from Aug. 30, 2020, to April 30, 2021, which logged race for 378 stops and showed 211 were listed as Black while producing only three drug seizures but more than $1 million in cash or money orders from 25 passengers.
- Civil rights lawyers and the comedians said the settlement's reforms aim to prevent future abuses and increase transparency, though the county did not admit liability and some implementation details remain unclear.