Earlier this year, the city of North Charleston agreed upon a $6.5 million settlement in the civil suit brought forth by the family of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man who was shot to death while running away from a police officer last April. The high-profile killing of the 50-year-old South Carolina man was infamously caught on camera.

This week, Scott’s family filed papers to finalize the settlement. The documents provide some insights into how the massive payout would be constructed. The first and most salient point of interest is the role of taxpayer funds. According to the Post & Courier, all but $1 million of the settlement will come from a city fund. “The S.C. Insurance Reserve Fund, which backs many governments in the state, will [also] contribute $1 million,” the report noted, which is “the maximum allowed by law.”

Major settlements between city governments and the families of black men killed by police are an increasingly common consequence of a horrifying trend in recent months. As my colleague Matt Ford noted back in October, “the Scott family’s settlement is comparable to those received by families in other cases of officer killings of unarmed black men. New York City settled a lawsuit by Eric Garner’s family in July for $5.9 million. Baltimore agreed to pay $6.4 million to the family of Freddie Gray in September.”