Experts thought the settlement was necessary for the city. “A jury could give $100 million, so they wanted to avoid that,” said Walter Signorelli, a lawyer who represents clients suing the police, who is also a former deputy inspector of the New York City Police Department.

But social justice advocates, who have already noted what they see as troubling racial dimensions of the case, said the unusually large settlement further illuminates the difference between white and black victims of police violence.

[Read more about reactions to the Noor verdict and its racial components.]

“The fact that this is the largest known case of a police abuse settlement in the history of Minneapolis, and that it’s on behalf of an affluent white woman, reinforces that there are two systems,” said Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights lawyer and activist in Minneapolis. “There are many people of color who have not received a dime from the city in the aftermath of their loved one being shot by the police.”

Ms. Levy Armstrong said that government leaders were sending a signal that a white life is more valuable than a black life. She pointed to the $3 million settlement for the family of Philando Castile, a black man who was fatally shot by a police officer in a suburb of St. Paul during a traffic stop in 2016, as a prime example of the inequity. (The officer in that case was Latino; he was acquitted of manslaughter charges but left the police department.)

Chicago has paid two of the largest previous settlements in police shooting cases: $16 million to the family of Bettie R. Jones in 2018, and an $18 million settlement with the family of LaTanya Haggerty in 1999. The latter was believed to be the highest settlement in a fatal police shooting until Friday. Both of those victims were African-Americans.

But nationwide, the vast majority of families who lose someone in a questionable police shooting get nothing, experts said, and many cases are dismissed before trial. Last year, a Florida jury awarded $4 to the family of a man who was killed when the police fired through his closed garage door after a dispute in which they said he was holding a gun.

Another expert said the attention on the Noor case and on the large settlement reflected how significant police shootings have become in the public eye.