New York City has agreed to pay $21,500 each to hundreds of protesters who were boxed in by police during racial justice protests in 2020.
New Yorkers protest over the death of George Floyd on June 4, 2020. Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Image
New York City will pay $21,500 each to hundreds of protesters who were boxed in by police during racial justice protests in 2020, according to aIf a judge approves the settlement, it would be one of the largest sums ever awarded per person in a class action case surrounding mass arrests, theThe settlement would cost the city somewhere in the ballpark of $4 million and $6 million. About 300 people were at the protest, and about 90 of them settled with the city on other complaints.
In 2010, Washington, D.C., agreed to pay $18,000 per person to those arrested during a protest near the World Bank and International Monetary Fund buildings, according to theThe New York City lawsuit involved about 300 people who were arrested in June 2020 during protests over the killing ofPolice penned in protesters who gathered in the Bronx and stopped them from leaving on June 4, according to thePolice used "zip-tie cuffs" to restrain protesters, the lawsuit says.
"Many protesters were left injured and bleeding," the lawsuit states. "Some protesters fainted, or lost consciousness and went into convulsions."The New York Police Department said in a statement that it "remains committed to continually improving its practices in every way possible." The department said the 2020 protests were "challenging" and officers "did their utmost to help facilitate people’s rights to peaceful expression all while addressing acts of lawlessness including wide-scale rioting, mass chaos, violence, and destruction."
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