(Reuters) - Two vacationing lesbians who accused a Honolulu police officer of harassing them for kissing at a grocery store have won an $80,000 settlement from the city, their attorney said on Friday. 
 
 Courtney Wilson and Taylor Guerrero in a federal lawsuit filed in October 2015 in Hawaii alleged their constitutional rights were violated when officer Bobby Harrison told them to “take it somewhere else” and encouraged the store manager to issue trespass warnings. 
 
 Harrison, during the March 2015 fracas at the store, also confronted Wilson and Guerrero at a checkout stand, telling them to get out of the line, according to their lawsuit against the officer and the city and county of Honolulu. 
 
 Eric Seitz, an attorney for the two women, has said the officer initiated a physical altercation with them and that they struck back at him. The women, who were vacationing from California, were arrested for assault. The charges were later dropped. 
 
 The settlement with the city and county of Honolulu was presented on Friday, Seitz said, and must still be given formal approval by Honolulu officials. Seitz said he expects that to happen. 
 
 Representatives from Honolulu and the police department did not immediately return calls. 
 
 The store, which had prepared a letter of trespass against the couple, had previously paid them a $10,000 settlement, Seitz said. 
 
 “It’s a pretty good outcome as far as we’re concerned,” Seitz said. ||||| Two lesbians who were arrested by a Honolulu police officer after he saw them hugging and kissing in a North Shore grocery store were recently awarded $80,000 to resolve a lawsuit they filed last October. 
 
 According to the Associated Press, the legal settlement was announced in U.S. District Court on Friday, although it still must be approved by the Honolulu City Council, which is expected to take up the matter July 6. 
 
 Cory Lum/Civil Beat 
 
 Here are the facts of the case as laid out by the AP: 
 
 Courtney Wilson and Taylor Guerrero were visiting Hawaii from Los Angeles last year when, according to the their lawsuit, they were harassed and arrested because the officer didn’t like their public displays of affection in a Foodland store on Oahu’s North Shore. 
 
 They were walking through the aisles holding hands and at one point hugged and kissed, the lawsuit said. Officer Bobby Harrison, who was shopping in uniform, “observed their consensual romantic contact and, in a loud voice, ordered plaintiffs to stop and ‘take it somewhere else.'” 
 
 The women complied and continued shopping, the lawsuit said. When Harrison again saw them being affectionate with each other, he threatened to have them thrown out of the store. 
 
 While the women were in the check-out line, Harrison grabbed Wilson by the wrist, and she started to call 911, the women described last year. All three got into a scuffle and Harrison arrested them. They were charged with felony assault on an officer and spent three days in jail. Charges were eventually dismissed.… ||||| File-This Oct. 28, 2015, file photo shows Courtney Wilson, left, and Taylor Guerrero posing for a photo in Honolulu. Honolulu will pay $80,000 to settle a lesbian couple's lawsuit alleging a city's police... (Associated Press) 
 
 File-This Oct. 28, 2015, file photo shows Courtney Wilson, left, and Taylor Guerrero posing for a photo in Honolulu. Honolulu will pay $80,000 to settle a lesbian couple's lawsuit alleging a city's police officer wrongfully arrested them after seeing them kissing in a grocery store while on vacation.... (Associated Press) 
 
 File-This Oct. 28, 2015, file photo shows Courtney Wilson, left, and Taylor Guerrero posing for a photo in Honolulu. Honolulu will pay $80,000 to settle a lesbian couple's lawsuit alleging a city's police officer wrongfully arrested them after seeing them kissing in a grocery store while on vacation.... (Associated Press) File-This Oct. 28, 2015, file photo shows Courtney Wilson, left, and Taylor Guerrero posing for a photo in Honolulu. Honolulu will pay $80,000 to settle a lesbian couple's lawsuit alleging a city's police... (Associated Press) 
 
 HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu has agreed to pay $80,000 to settle a lawsuit from two gay women who allege a police officer wrongfully arrested them after seeing them kissing in a grocery store. 
 
 Details of the settlement were announced Friday in federal court in Honolulu. It's still subject to City Council approval. The council is expected to consider the settlement at a July 6 meeting, said Honolulu Deputy Corporation Counsel Nicolette Winter. 
 
 "The Department of the Corporation Counsel believes that the tentative settlement is in the best interests of the city," Corporation Counsel Donna Leong said in a statement. 
 
 Courtney Wilson and Taylor Guerrero were visiting Hawaii from Los Angeles last year when, according to the their lawsuit, they were harassed and arrested because the officer didn't like their public displays of affection in a Foodland store on Oahu's North Shore. 
 
 They were walking through the aisles holding hands and at one point hugged and kissed, the lawsuit said. Officer Bobby Harrison, who was shopping in uniform, "observed their consensual romantic contact and, in a loud voice, ordered plaintiffs to stop and 'take it somewhere else.'" 
 
 The women complied and continued shopping, the lawsuit said. When Harrison again saw them being affectionate with each other, he threatened to have them thrown out of the store. 
 
 While the women were in the check-out line, Harrison grabbed Wilson by the wrist, and she started to call 911, the women described last year. All three got into a scuffle and Harrison arrested them. They were charged with felony assault on an officer and spent three days in jail. Charges were eventually dismissed. 
 
 After the lawsuit was filed, the Honolulu Police Department opened an internal investigation. "The internal investigation was completed, and the allegations were not sustained," department spokeswoman Michelle Yu said in an email. Harrison retired at the end of last year, she said. 
 
 The settlement dismisses Harrison from the lawsuit and isn't an admission of any wrongdoing, Winter said. 
 
 Wilson said she and Guerrero are no longer a couple but remain friends. She went back to Los Angeles while Guerrero decided to stay in Honolulu. 
 
 "I'm glad it's over, but at the same time we wanted the officer to suffer some sort of repercussion," Wilson said. 
 
 Guerrero ended up working and living in Honolulu partly because a condition of their release from jail required them to say on the island. By the time the charges were dismissed, Guerrero found she liked living here. 
 
 "I'm happy with it," Guerrero said of the settlement. "I'm just glad it's over with." 
 
 After paying their attorneys, Wilson and Guerrero plan to split what's left from the settlement amount. 
 
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– Two women who say they were arrested for kissing in a grocery store during a Hawaiian vacation last year will settle their lawsuit against the City of Honolulu for $80,000, the AP reports. Los Angeles residents Courtney Wilson and Taylor Guerrero were holding hands while shopping at a Foodland grocery store. When the couple stopped to hug and kiss, they were approached by officer Bobby Harrison, who was shopping while in uniform. Their lawsuit alleges Harrison ordered them to "take it somewhere else." It also states he tried to get the store's manager to issue trespass warnings to Wilson and Guerrero, according to Reuters. The lawsuit claims Harrison later grabbed Wilson's wrist while she was in the checkout line. A scuffle ensued, and the women were arrested. Wilson and Guerrero spent three days in jail, but the felony assault charges against them were eventually dismissed. The couple, who have since broken up, filed a lawsuit against the City of Honolulu in October, the Honolulu Civil Beat reports. The $80,000 settlement was announced Friday and still must be approved by the Honolulu City Council. "It's a pretty good outcome as far as we're concerned," an attorney for Wilson and Guerrero tells Reuters. The women already settled with Foodland for $10,000. The Honolulu Police Department investigated Harrison after the lawsuit was filed and found no wrongdoing. “I’m glad it’s over, but at the same time we wanted the officer to suffer some sort of repercussion,” Wilson tells the AP. Harrison retired following the incident.