AUSTIN (KXAN) — A former Austin police officer fired for his handling of the fatal shooting of an unarmed and naked teenager has received a settlement from the city of Austin.

Geoffrey Freeman will receive a $35,000 payment from the city in exchange for the agreement to not file further claims. He will also never work for the Austin Police Department again.

“The department is aware that Geoffrey Freeman and the city of Austin have come to an agreement to settle the arbitration and the Austin Police Department respects this decision,” Interim Police Chief Brian Manley said. “APD continues its commitment to uphold the highest standards for its officers.”

Freeman shot and killed 17-year-old David Joseph in February. He was originally called to an apartment complex in the 300 block of East Yager Lane on Feb. 8 for a report of a man chasing another man around the complex. Spotting the teen in the street, Freeman exited his patrol car and drew his gun. After giving him commands to stop, Freeman fired two shots at Joseph who was running towards him. The incident occurred out of view of the officer’s dash cam video, but you can still hear the audio and see Joseph in the street moments before he was killed.

A grand jury said Freeman’s actions in the shooting were justified and did not charge him in the deadly shooting.

Freeman’s attorney Grant Goodwin says because Freeman did not admit guilt, he can still be a police officer elsewhere. “This is best for all parties involved. For the Freeman family, the Joseph family, the city of Austin and the Austin police department,” said Goodwin.

Freeman was scheduled for an arbitration hearing this upcoming Monday and was hoping to get his job back. Sources tell KXAN News the settlement may not have happened had the mayor not cited the shooting as an example during his news conference on the creation of a task force to address institutional racism across the city.

“The mayor made a big mistake. He stepped in and violated [Freeman’s] due process rights, and we immediately subpoenaed the mayor of Austin. That’s what changed. That’s what made all the difference,” said Charley Wilkison, the executive director of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, or CLEAT. “It’s such a narrow window for officers across the state to find justice, and so, the elected officials — it’s their job to stay out of that process. So, you never see the mayor step in where someone’s been accused of a crime. He would never step in on either side. He would never be so bold as to create a commission and give an example of a pending case.”

Wilkison said it was the first subpoena the organization has issued for the mayor of a city. Doing so, he said, has new ramifications for cases across the state of Texas.

“We seized on the mistake he [Adler] made,” added Wilkison. “He had this joyous, big moment where he got to be the hero and he was going to fix racism, and so, he mentioned Geoffrey Freeman and we jumped on it.”

CLEAT, as well as the Austin Police Association maintain that Freeman’s actions were justified and in line with training he’d received from the police academy.

“[Freeman] was within the right. How he was trained. He didn’t see any options for himself that day, and so, this is as close to justice as we can get out of a terrible situation,” said Wilkison.

“The Austin Police Academy told Chief Acevedo that [Freeman] followed the training that we gave them and once we found that out, we’ve backed Officer Freeman 100 percent,” said Ken Casaday, the president of the APA. “Chief took the easy way out. Instead of having to explain to the community that his police academy trained Officer Freeman to do what he did, he took the easy way out.”

Council Member Ora Houston issued a statement stating the city was hoping “the arbitrator to find in favor of the city of Austin, uphold Chief Acevedo’s decision to indefinitely suspend Geoffrey Freeman, and for Mr. Freeman not to return to the Department in any capacity as a police officer for the city of Austin. The settlement achieves those goals and provides finality to at least one part of a very unfortunate, difficult and sad situation.”

Mayor Adler released this statement Friday, responding to the settlement:

Nothing we do now will bring David Joseph back to his parents, family or community. We need to learn from what happened so we can avoid similar incidents in the future, and this settlement helps move us forward as a city.”

The executive director of CLEAT also said he believes the city of Austin did not want the mayor to testify, and the mayor did not wish to testify in Monday’s scheduled arbitration hearing, so the city offered Freeman the settlement on Friday. Representatives of Adler’s office deny those claims, saying Adler was “excited to testify” and city lawyers had to talk him out of it.

A wrongful death lawsuit filed by Joseph’s family against Freeman and the city of Austin is still going through the legal system. The suit claims the city has not trained officers on using other methods that are not deadly force, they have not addressed an under-staffing issue and the police are discriminating against minorities.