The city of Golden Valley has settled a police brutality lawsuit for more than one million dollars. A jury ruled that in 2005, two of the city's police officers used excessive force when they detained a man they thought was a bank robber. The man, Al Hixon, is African American. However, the robbery suspect was white. Hixon sued the city and a jury awarded him 778-thousand dollars. The city will pay several hundred thousand more in attorney fees. Attorney Allen Barnard defended the city in the lawsuit.