NYC to pay $13M to 2020 racial injustice protesters in historic class action
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New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020.
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The lawsuit focused on 18 of the many protests that erupted in New York City in the week following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis.
If approved by a judge, the class action settlement would award most of the approximately 1,300 plaintiffs who were subjected to force by police in the spring of 2020 about $10,000 each.
New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020.
A new settlement in a case of racial justice protesters who claim to have been victims of police brutality and New York City would see the city give them $13 million.
