The city said it will also pay $21,500 per plaintiff for legal costs and an extra $2,500 to protesters who were given court appearance tickets, meaning the bill from the class-action lawsuit could be close to $10 million or more.
It’s one of several lawsuits against NYPD officers who mistreated protesters who took to the streets nightly after the police killing of Floyd in Minnesota on May 25, 2020.
plaintiffs' attorney Ali Frick told ABC News. "This was essentially a premeditated show of force against people who were demonstrating against police violence."
plaintiff Henry Wood said in a statement released through lawyers. “What the NYPD did, aided by the political powers of New York City, was an extreme abuse of power.”
Samira Sierra, another of the protesters who sued, said "We had every right to protest, yet, the City of New York made an explicit statement that day that the people of the Bronx are at will to be terrorized,"
The civil rights organization Human Rights Watch released a report in October 2020 citing evidence that police planned an aggressive crackdown on the Mott Haven protesters.
Police used bicycles to form a wall around protesters while officers, including some in riot gear, attacked demonstrators — beating them with batons, kicking and punching them, and spraying them with pepper spray, the report said.
There were 320 protesters restrained with zip ties, battered with batons and hit with pepper spray, according to their lawsuit that named the city, the department and individual high-ranking members of the NYPD.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/nyc-pay-millions-police-kettling-floyd-protest-97555978
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