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A $27 million lawsuit, settled: LackLuster closes a New York case

A man knocked unconscious while handcuffed on Route 9W sued for $27 million, and the update reporting the settlement drew close to half a million views in four days.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

$27 Million Lawsuit UPDATE - SETTLED - Cop KO's Cuffed Man

"$27 Million Lawsuit UPDATE - SETTLED - Cop KO's Cuffed Man" is the end of a story LackLuster has followed across several videos. In December 2024, a man named Khaled was handcuffed on Route 9W in New York, taken to the pavement by an officer and knocked unconscious. He woke up in a hospital days later and sued the town and the officer. The description adds a turn of the creator's own: after he reported on the case, he says, the New York State Police came after him. Now the suit has settled. The update drew about 350,000 views on its first day and is close to half a million.

It was one of three uploads. Two days earlier came a Tucson case from 2016: a woman walking home from a bar was handcuffed and pushed face-first into a palm tree. A judge later found there was no reasonable suspicion or probable cause for the stop. The title points to qualified immunity, the legal shield the channel's about page wants abolished, being denied twice. The newest video, "COPS: "He Fell" --- Video Shows Otherwise," sets an Oklahoma department's account of a traffic stop involving a 69-year-old driver against the footage. Two days in, it is drawing views faster than anything else on the channel. A 16-day-old Fort Collins video about a college student arrested for impaired driving, who blew 0.000 on the breath test, is still drawing a steady audience.

Overall, the channel ran a little below its usual daily pace. Among the true crime and court channels near its size, the big week belongs to Matthew Cox, whose daily views nearly doubled. Beyond Evil and FilmRise True Crime are also running above their usual level. For LackLuster, the week's most-watched video was the one that ended a case.

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