Fortunately, Yagman lost, but I don't think the officer(s) named as individual defendants have ever been made whole. A couple of years ago, I lived in a city victimized by Yagman and his ACLU buddies. Those of us who'd seen the circus before tried to graft some spine on the civic leaders, but we failed. They rolled-over to the tune of a million and a half
The issue in the North Hollywood case involved a failure to provide care to one of the suspects. Those who witnessed the incident, or who overheard the radio traffic (some of which is still available on the web), are aware of the level of chaos that day. There was believed to be a third suspect in the area, there was another report of a man with a gun on a nearby roof (ultimately determined to be a SWAT member), and there was a report of a man wearing clothing identical to the suspects having entered a nearby restaurant. The fire department was staged several blocks away, as well they should be, and was dealing with large amounts of civilian and law enforcement wounded. Los Angeles is short on paramedic units on a good day, let alone in that kind of circumstance. Once the jury grasped all this, it didn't take them long to figure it out.
When I first moved to L.A., I lived in an apartment not far from the bank, and banked there, so (knowing the scene), the really scarey thing was the location of the wounded. This wasn't a situation where bullets are bouncing off the car you're behind and the damage is confined to one building on each side, there were people shot inside stores across Lankersham on the far side of that block-wide parking lot. These guys were perforating every thing in sight.
I'll watch with interest the portrayal on the show, but in the real world, that "charge of the light brigade" the SWAT team did on the second suspect took enormous huevos, gallons of adrenelin, or both.