cop's son video taped sucker punching homeless man settles - Pays med bills & donation to NAACP.

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still charged with a crime

Cop's son settles in sucker-punch attack
WKMG LOCAL 6 NEWS • January 25, 2011

SANFORD -- The attorney for a homeless man who was beaten outside a bar in Sanford while someone recorded the incident said a settlement has been reached with his attacker.

Justin Collison, the son of a Sanford police officer, was formally charged with aggravated battery in the Dec. 4 incident by the state attorney's office on Monday.

A witness captured video that police said shows Collison sucker-punching Sherman Ware in the back of the head outside the Wet Spot Bar in downtown Sanford.

In a news conference Tuesday morning, Ware's attorney, Natalie Jackson, said her client has reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount of money with Collison.

Jackson said Ware decided Collison did not attack him because he was black or homeless.

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20110125/BREAKINGNEWS/110125013/1006/NEWS01/Cop+s+son+settles+in+sucker-punch+attack

video of attack here: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/cops-son-turns-shocking-videos-release/story?id=12529580