Settlement To Be Approved For Man Roughed Up By Former Police Sergeant

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh City Council is expected to approve a settlement today with a man who was roughed up by a city officer outside of Heinz Field in 2015.
Gabriel Despres will receive $77,000.
Despres, 19 years of age at the time of the incident, was pushed down and beaten up by then-Pittsburgh police sergeant Stephen Matakovich.
“The settlement, from a monetary perspective, is good. What’s better in this case was that Stephen Matak