LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A man who wore a Ku Klux Klan hood to a Los Angeles city commission meeting will receive $215,000 as part of a settlement.
Michael Hunt, who is black, wore the KKK hood at a 2009 City Council meeting, causing the meeting to adjourn. Then when he wore it again at a 2011 meeting of the Board of Recreation and Parks commissioners, he was kicked out.
He later filed a lawsuit claiming free-speech violation. On Wednesday, the City Council voted to settle the lawsuit, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The settlement "means that the city is held accountable when it violates civil rights and First Amendment rights," said Hunt's lawyer, Stephen Rohde.
City Councilman Bernard Parks says the council decided to settle because it might have been forced to pay much more in legal fees if the case went to trial.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.