PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Multnomah County commissioners are scheduled to decide next week whether to approve a $925,000 settlement with relatives of a mentally ill man who died in police custody.

The vote on a federal lawsuit filed by the family of James Chasse is expected at a July 2 meeting, according to the county commission's Web site. The suit named the county, the city of Portland and police.

Chasse, 42, who had schizophrenia, was arrested following a foot chase in the Pearl District in September 2006. Officers said they thought he had urinated outside and was on drugs.

In an interview with investigators a few days after the incident, an officer said he shoved Chasse down and then fell onto the sidewalk, past Chasse. But a video of officers talking at the jail after they brought Chasse in captures the officer telling a sheriff's deputy that "we tackled him."

The 13-minute video ends with police and jail sheriff's deputies hauling Chasse out of jail. Chasse, who can be heard moaning, died while police were driving him to a hospital. According to autopsy results, Chasse suffered more than a dozen broken ribs, including some that punctured a lung and caused massive internal bleeding.

The death angered advocates for the mentally ill, but a Multnomah County grand jury found no criminal wrongdoing.

Chasse's death led Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer to make sure officers consider the severity of the crime before giving chase.

Besides a request for damages, the lawsuit filed in 2007 by attorney Tom Steenson seeks to make changes to limit the use of deadly force and foot pursuits.

It also seeks the establishment an independent oversight panel for reviewing deaths in custody, along with an intervention system to monitor officers who use excessive force.

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