NYC to Pay $13.7 Million to George Floyd Protesters over Alleged Police Misconduct
By Brittany Bernstein
July 20, 2023 8:11 AM
The City of New York agreed to pay a $13.7 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by protesters who accused NYPD officers of using unlawful policing tactics and violating the rights of demonstrators during the 2020 protests and rioting sparked by the death of George Floyd.
The city has agreed to pay out $9,950 per person to up to 1,380 people who were “arrested and/or subjected to force by N.Y.P.D. officers” during protests at 18 different locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn in May and June of 2020, according to the New York Times.
The city denied liability in the settlement agreement and also denied the NYPD had a pattern or practice that violated anyone’s rights.
Lawyers for the protesters from the left-leaning National Lawyers Guild told the outlet the settlement is the largest ever paid to protesters.
“N.Y.P.D.’s suppression of dissent has continued through numerous mayoral administrations,” said Wylie Stecklow, an attorney for the protesters.
Some involved in the class-action suit were arrested, while others said they were not arrested but were on the receiving end of police conduct intended to prevent them from exercising their First Amendment rights.
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