A man tackled in the middle of a busy Vallejo street and struck multiple times by a police officer in March 2017 received $75,000 to settle a claim he filed against the city, the Times-Herald has learned.

Dejuan Hall, of Vacaville, received the payment about a year after the incident, which was partly recorded in two videos that went viral showing then-Vallejo police Ofc. Spencer Muniz-Bottomley struggling with Hall in the middle of Fairgrounds Drive in North Vallejo.

Muniz-Bottomley, a defendant in several other excessive force lawsuits, is no longer employed with the city of Vallejo, officials confirmed to this newspaper last year.

Muniz-Bottomley responded to a call on March 10, 2017 of a customer at a gas station, later identified as Hall, acting erratically. Hall ran after being confronted by police with Muniz-Bottomley giving chase. One of the videos shows Hall running away and sitting down on the median before Muniz-Bottomley tackles him as onlookers shout in anger.

At that point, Muniz-Bottomley then mounts Hall and begins punching and hitting the Vacaville man with a flashlight.

As a crowd of onlookers surge toward Muniz-Bottomley and Hall, Muniz-Bottomley tells the crowd to “shut up” and “get back.” During the incident Muniz-Bottomley pulls his gun out of his holster and points it, barrel down, in the direction of crowd members not seen in the video, before re-holstering it.

Hall can be heard in on the videos yelling, “I am God!”

A second officer arrives and places his knee on Hall in an attempt to subdue him. Muniz- Bottomley continues to strike Hall, while additional officers arrive on scene and demand the crowd back up.

Oakland-based civil rights attorney Michael Haddad filed a claim with the city of Vallejo alleging Muniz-Bottomley, along with officers Brian Murphy, Wesley Simpson, and William Carpenter caused Hall to suffer cuts to his face, “substantial injuries” to his face, head, body, shoulders and stomach, and short-term memory loss.”

Vallejo Police Chief Andrew Bidou was also named in the claim which alleged that Murphy struck Hall five times with a baton and put Hall in a choke hold. The remaining officers were named because they failed to stop the force being used against Hall, the claim states.

Most excessive force claims filed against the city are usually denied, which leads the claimant to file a lawsuit. However, in the Hall case city officials decided to settle the case before it advanced to a lawsuit.

“This usually indicates the city realizes there is a significant liability,” Haddad said by phone last week.

Vallejo City Attorney Claudia Quintana didn’t return a request for comment on the reason why the city settled with Hall.

Despite the settlement, Hall is in county jail and facing a trial in September stemming from the 2017 incident, his criminal attorney Amy Morton said.

Hall’s resisting arrest and trespassing charges from the March 2017 incident have been merged with other charges, Solano County Superior Court records show. He faces charges of DUI, driving without a license, petty theft, and solicitation of a lewd act, among others.

“Mr. Hall is in custody because he has no place to go,” Morton told the Times-Herald last week. “He’s not a danger, just gravely disabled. He was shouting ‘I am God’ — he needs some sort of diversion program not criminal prosecution.”

The Solano County District Attorney’s Office did not return a request for comment regarding why it’s continuing to seek prosecution of Hall.

Hired by the Vallejo Police Department in July 2015, Muniz-Bottomley was quickly named in at least four different excessive force lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court during his time with the department, court records show.

Months after the Hall incident, Muniz-Bottomley was seen in his body camera footage leaked online arresting a man outside his Tennessee Street business in July 2017.

Carl Edwards alleges in his lawsuit that he suffered a broken nose, a black eye, head trauma, cuts to his face, arms, back, hands, head, and he required stitches after a struggle with officers.

The video shows Muniz-Bottomley approaching Edwards, as he works on a fence near his woodwork shop at 433 Tennessee St.

When Edwards doesn’t comply with Muniz-Bottomley’s command to come away from the fence so the men can talk, Muniz-Bottomley then grabs Edwards and a struggle ensues with the former officer attempting to place handcuffs on Edwards, the video shows.

The two are joined by additional Vallejo officers as they wrestle with Edwards, who is injured in the melee.

Edwards’ lawsuit alleges he was subjected to excessive force, malicious prosecution and unreasonable seizure. The city has denied all of the allegations and further said the officers acted appropriately.

The case is ongoing.

Muniz-Bottomley was named as a defendant in an October 2016 lawsuit by Derrick Lamoris Shields who alleged that while laying face down on his stomach, he was kicked, punched, and struck with a baton by several Vallejo police officers during an April 2016 incident.

Shields claimed Muniz-Bottomley struck him with a flashlight.

“As a result of the police beating, plaintiff lost consciousness, experienced bruises all over his body and spine, swollen face, fractured jaw, abrasions, and broken teeth,” the complaint alleged.

The lawsuit was tossed from court in November 2017 due to the court’s inability to serve documents to Shields. He failed to provide the court a change of address, records show.

Jimmy Brooks claimed he was beaten by several Vallejo police officers during an August 2015 incident. When the lawsuit was first filed in October 2016, it didn’t list the names of any officers. However, when the complaint was later amended in February 2017, Muniz-Bottomley was one of seven officers named in the lawsuit.

Brooks alleged he suffered a fractured right ankle and right fibula, and suffered several stitches to his legs and upper body during an encounter with Vallejo police in August 2015, the lawsuit claims.

Muniz-Bottomley was removed as a defendant in the case prior to the city agreeing to pay Brooks $50,000 late last year to end the case.