Category: George Floyd protests

NYC Agrees to $13 Million Settlement With BLM Demonstrators

July 20, 2023
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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…

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Art Teacher Who Chased Reporters With Machete Surrenders to NYPD

May 25, 2023
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A former art professor at Hunter College in New York City turned herself in to police on Thursday after she appeared to brandish a machete at a pair of New York Post reporters on Tuesday. Shellyne Rodriguez, 45, appeared to wave a machete at a New York Post news crew who had visited her apartment…

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Boston Police Unions Sue City Over Restrictions on Non-Lethal Weapons

July 20, 2022
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Two Boston police unions filed a civil lawsuit on July 18 to stop the city from enforcing an ordinance that makes it harder for police to use non-lethal weapons for crowd control. It is the latest law enforcement pushback against a national trend of growing restrictions on police usage of non-lethal weapons following the protests…

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Progressive Prosecutors Ramping Up Criminal Charges Against Police

February 23, 2022
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Chief prosecutors in Austin, San Francisco, and Chicago, doubled down on criminal prosecutions of law enforcement officials in the past year-and-a-half since the George Floyd protests. All three were elected on a progressive platform to ease up on criminal punishment, especially on low-level crimes, while getting tougher on police to root out what they called…

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