The settlement does not include any admission of wrongdoing, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster wrote in a one-page document filed Monday.

“Although historic in financial terms, no amount of money can adequately compensate for the loss of a life,” attorneys for Rice’s family said in a statement. “Tamir was 12 years old when he was shot and killed by police — a young boy with his entire life ahead of him, full of potential and promise. In a situation such as this, there is no such thing as closure or justice. Nothing will bring Tamir back.”

This lawsuit was filed not long after a Cleveland police officer fatally shot Tamir, who was playing with a toy gun in a park when authorities were called to the scene. Tamir’s death was one of several high-profile incidents that propelled an ongoing national discussion over how police officers use deadly force, particularly against black men and boys.

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While the call about a man with a gun specified that the person may have been a child with a toy weapon, the officers — Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback — were not told that when they responded.

Both officers, along with the city of Cleveland, were named as defendants in the federal lawsuit filed less than two weeks after Tamir was killed. On Monday, the officers said they still believe they acted legally, even as they said they saw the benefits of settling the case.

“The officers value the lives of all persons, including their own, and certainly wish that fate had not brought them into the situation that forced them to act in the manner in which they did; which they maintain was ‘legally reasonable’ under all of the circumstances,” an attorney for both officers said in a statement. “That having been said, the officers recognize the value of early legal resolution to allow some healing to begin.”

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Polster agreed to oversee settlement talks between attorneys for Rice’s family and the city’s lawyers last month. In his order filed Monday, Polster wrote that the settlement was reached after an all-day discussion on April 1 followed by numerous telephone calls.

“While we have settled the legal side of this and the court proceedings side of this for $6 million dollars, there is no price that you can put on the life, the loss of a 12-year-old child,” Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson said at a news conference Monday.

The seven-figure settlement in Cleveland is the latest in a series of payouts for the families of those killed by police officers in incidents that sparked protests. New York City agreed to pay $5.9 million to the family of Eric Garner, whose death after being put in a chokehold by a police officer was captured on video by a bystander.

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