Savannah civil-rights attorney Denise Okafor, my law-school friend, said the video, fracture, and conviction made my false-arrest and excessive-force case exceptionally strong.
“Amara, you could get a significant amount of money,” she said. “You have every right to it.”
“I know,” I said. “File it.”
She did. Six months later, Pell County’s insurance carrier settled my claim for $425,000.
I retained na settlement.
I gave $200,000 to establish the Hattie Mae Greene Scholarship at Fort Valley State, for students from Pell County who want to study law or
