TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jan 30, 2026

Knoxville paid $579,327.40 in total to litigate and settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Anthony Thompson Jr., who was shot and killed by city police inside an Austin-East Magnet High School bathroom in 2021, Knox News reports. A federal judge finalized the settlement Jan. 15 and canceled a scheduled jury trial in which officers would have had to defend why they did not provide medical care to Thompson. In an earlier ruling, a federal judge determined the family could not sue over the officers’ use of force or the lawfulness of Thompson’s arrest, a decision later upheld by an appeals court.