The city of New York is nearing a settlement to pay $13.7 million as part of a class action lawsuit brought forth by nearly 1,400 people involved in the George Floyd protests.
The settlement, filed Wednesday in a Manhattan federal court and pending a judge’s approval, would pay roughly $9,950 apiece to 1,380 protestors who “were arrested and/or subjected to force by NYPD officers” and had their First Amendment rights suppressed in late May and early June 2020.
In total, the NYPD made over 2,000 protest-related arrests over a 10-day span in the aftermath of Floyd’s death; while the demonstrations were largely peaceful, the protests served as a catalyst for incidents of vehicle burning and looting, forcing then-Mayor Bill de Blasio to institute the city’s first curfew in 75 years,
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