The St. Paul City Council is scheduled to approve a $30,000 settlement next week to a 26-year-old man who alleged in a federal lawsuit that police used excessive force against him.

Officers Rondle Townsend and Todd Bjorkman came to Tobari West’s St. Paul home in 2011 with an arrest warrant based on an alleged probation violation. West did nothing to resist officers, but Townsend punched him “in his face repeatedly for no reason” and Bjorkman “repeatedly stunned” West with a Taser in the back, the lawsuit claimed.

West was left with two facial fractures, the suit said.

The officers filed reports with “false allegations that he pulled away and resisted officers, and that he punched at, struck and kicked officers,” the suit said. Based on the reports, West was charged with obstructing legal process with force. However, a jury acquitted him of the charge in August, said the suit, which claimed excessive force and malicious prosecution.

The city said in its answer to the suit that officers had not filed reports with false claims, and that Townsend delivered several strikes to West and Bjorkman used a Taser in response to West’s “resistance to arrest and physical attacks on both officers.”

The settlement agreement states it is “the compromise of a doubtful and disputed claim and … the payment made is not to be construed as an admission of liability.” West has agreed he will dismiss the individual officers as defendants in the suit.

Mara H. Gottfried can be reached at 651-228-5262. Follow her at twitter.com/MaraGottfried or twitter.com/ppUsualSuspects.