New York City has agreed to pay out $13 million in a settlement with more than 1,300 protesters who were arrested or allegedly being brutalized by police officers while attending 18 different protest events in the city in the summer of 2020.
On Thursday, a group of law firms representing the protesters in a federal lawsuit announced a pending settlement agreement with the city. Per the terms of the settlement—now awaiting the approval of District Court Judge Colleen M. McMahon—the city will pay $9,950 to each of up to approximately 1,380 protesters arrested by New York City Police Department (NYPD) members at a series of street protests in Manhattan and Brooklyn between May 28 and June 4, 2020….