The city of Philadelphia has agreed to pay $4.4 million to settle two lawsuits after an unarmed black man was shot repeatedly by police in 2014. The sum is the largest shooting-related police settlement in the department's history and closes civil litigation from an incident the city called a "tragic misunderstanding."

Undercover white police officers were investigating a shooting incident in West Philadelphia around 10 p.m. on April 22, 2014 and tried to pull over Phil Holland, who was unarmed and wearing a black hoodie while he worked his food delivery job.

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