GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A man who received a $125,000 settlement with Grand Rapids after he was repeatedly punched by an officer has avoided jail time for resisting police.

Bronquel Brown, 25, was sentenced Tuesday, Dec. 17 to $1,125 in fines and costs after he earlier pleaded to attempted resisting and obstructing.

Brown was arrested March 17 in the area of California Street NW and National Avenue, but not before a Grand Rapids police officer punched him 29 times as police struggled to take him into custody.

The incident led to the firing of Grand Rapids police Officer Drew Rau.

Police attempted to conduct a traffic stop around 11:30 p.m. March 17 for an alleged speeding offense. During the stop, Brown pulled into the driveway of his mother’s house with his young child in the backseat of the vehicle.

After Brown failed to comply with officers’ requests for his full name and to provide his driver’s license, the incident escalated.

An officer broke Brown’s window and sprayed him with pepper spray. The officer forced the door open and pulled him out of the vehicle. A second officer used a Taser on Brown twice, and then-officer Rau kicked Brown out of the vehicle from the passenger side, and came around the car to help detain him.

That’s when Rau punched Brown 29 times in the left leg while he was being detained.

Brown was charged with resisting and obstructing police and, following an investigation, Rau was fired.

Brown received a $125,000 settlement from Grand Rapids in September following a Michigan Department of Civil Rights complaint.

In court Tuesday, Brown made no comment during the court hearing and declined comment afterward.

He told Judge Paul Sullivan that he was moving to Texas soon.

Sullivan said he considered giving Brown community service as part of the sentence, he said Brown’s move would make that cumbersome.