A lesbian couple are to be awarded $80,000 after being wrongfully arrested by a police officer while on vacation in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Courtney Wilson and Taylor Guerrero will be paid by the city of Honolulu once the decision is settled by the City Council.

‘The Department of the Corporation Counsel believes that the tentative settlement is in the best interests of the city,’ a representative said in a statement.

The couple were visiting from Los Angeles last year on vacation.

While shopping at Foodland a police officer spotted them being affectionate and told them to ‘stop it’, and ‘take it somewhere else’.

Later the officer, Bobby Harrison, saw them kissing and threatened to throw them out.

‘We were holding hands and I was kissing her cheek.

‘He was like you girls, you girls can’t do that in here,’ Guerrero said.

He approached them while they were paying for their food.

According to the couple, he gripped Wilson’s wrist. When Wilson tried to call an emergency number, the three got into a fight.

Harrison later charged them with assaulting an officer, and they were jailed for three days. All charges were later dismissed.

Harrison was not charged. ‘The internal investigation was completed, and the allegations were not sustained,’ department spokeswoman Michelle Yu told Associated Press. She said Harrison had retired before the investigation ended.

Wilson and Guerrero are no longer a couple.

Wilson went back to Los Angeles while Guerrero, having been forced to stay in Honolulu during after being arrested, decided she liked it enough to stay.

‘I’m glad it’s over, but at the same time we wanted the officer to suffer some sort of repercussion,’ Wilson told AP.

They plan to use the settlement to pay their legal fees and split the money between them.