Raymond C. Chandler, a 41-year-old security guard, suffocated on July 15, 2000 , at Monticello Avenue and Virginia Beach Boulevard.

The lawsuit, filed by his sister Sallie Chandler , said officers handcuffed Raymond Chandler, used pepper spray on him, and then sat on his back while he was being handcuffed. Police have said Chandler resisted arrest.

A medical examiner reported that Chandler died accidentally of positional and mechanical asphyxia, which means that force was applied to Chandler’s lungs and diaphragm and that he could not draw breath. He also had an enlarged heart and high blood pressure that led to cardiac arrest.

The city will pay his family $200,000.

Police have agreed to implement new training policies on positional and mechanical asphyxia and the use of pepper spray and how it relates to asphyxia .

Police also have installed and will use cameras in all police cruisers, according to a statement released by attorneys in the case.

Several of those changes had already been made before the lawsuit was settled. The Police Department also established citizen advisory committees, and assigned more investigators to handle internal affairs complaints, according to past reports.

The statement said Chandler’s family will erect a monument at the site of his death. It’s not clear when the monument will be in place, said Adam H. Lotkin, who represented Sallie Chandler.

Attorneys in the case declined to comment beyond the statement. The Chandler family also declined to comment.

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