DES MOINES, Iowa — The City of Des Moines has reached a settlement agreement with a man who was tied up by police and arrested in 2019. Officers thought Nick Templeton was on drugs, but he was actually having a seizure while driving. After officers got Templeton out of his vehicle, police body camera footage shows them holding him face down on the ground and tying constraints to his hands and feet behind his back with a device called a hobble. The man told officers several times he couldn’t breathe, when one officer’s knee was on his back, while Templeton was face down on the concrete.

Police reports say Templeton was kicking and struggling with officers as they tried to constrain him. He was originally charged with a drug offense because of the pills found in his vehicle, but that charge was later dropped. The medication was legally prescribed to him.

KCCI reports Templeton and the city of Des Moines came to a settlement agreement of $12,500. City officials say they support the settlement.