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New York City To Pay $13.7 Million To George Floyd Protesters For Mass Arrests
Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Mairead Elordi.
New York City agreed Wednesday to pay $13.7 million to more than 1,000 protesters who took to the streets during the George Floyd protests in 2020.
The city's huge payout settles a major class-action lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court that claimed police violated the civil rights of protesters.
The lawsuit dealt with clashes between protesters and police at 18 protests that happened during the week after George Floyd's death in Minneapolis police custody at the end of May.
Protesters who are eligible for a payout can receive $9,950 in compensation, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs.
Some of the protesters who are eligible for payouts were arrested, while others were not arrested, but had their First Amendment rights infringed by police, their lawsuit claimed.
Protesters who were arrested on charges of violence including trespassing, property destruction, assaulting an officer, or arson or weapons possession will not be eligible for a payout, and those who blocked police from arresting other people may also not be eligible.
The settlement must still be approved by a judge. It would reportedly be one of the most expensive payouts ever over mass arrests.
The plaintiffs' lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild, a left-leaning group, accused the NYPD of violating protesters' First Amendment rights by taking an excessively violent approach and making illegal arrests.
In some instances, police beat and kicked protesters, the lawsuit claimed.
"N.Y.P.D.'s suppression of dissent has continued through numerous mayoral administrations," one of the plaintiffs' lawyers said in a statement.
The city argued the NYPD did not try to quash lawful protests and take away the protesters' constitutional right to demonstrate.
"There is no history - or present or future - of unconstitutional policing," read a memo from Georgia Pestana, an attorney for the city. "There is no frequent deprivation of constitutional rights."
In the days after Floyd's death, about 10,000 people were arrested across the country. The property damage from the riots across the country totaled nearly $2 billion.
In New York, police arrested just over 2,000 people between May 28, three days after Floyd's death, and June 7, according to the New York State attorney general's office.
Thousands of people protested in New York City, some violently. Rioters injured dozens of police officers, damaged dozens of police cars - setting some of them on fire and graffitiing them - and looted or damaged at least 450 businesses.
In one instance, two NYPD officers in Brooklyn were shot and one was stabbed in the neck as they tried to prevent looting during a protest.
The mayor placed the city under a curfew for the first week of June, the city's first curfew in 75 years, but the curfew was frequently violated by protesters.
Although it is the largest, this is not New York's first settlement with protesters who demonstrated over George Floyd.
In March, the city settled with about 300 people who were arrested on June 4, 2020, in the Bronx. Those protesters were awarded $21,500 each.
Police boxed in the hundreds of protesters using a police tactic known as "kettling," the lawsuit from those protesters claimed. Officers restrained them with zip ties and swung at protesters with batons, and sprayed pepper spray at them, the lawsuit said.
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New York City agreed Wednesday to pay $13.7 million to more than 1,000 protesters who took to the streets during the George Floyd protests in 2020.
The city's huge payout settles a major class-action lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court that claimed police violated the civil rights of protesters.
The lawsuit dealt with clashes between protesters and police at 18 protests that happened during the week after George Floyd's death in Minneapolis police custody at the end of May.
Protesters who are eligible for a payout can receive $9,950 in compensation, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs.
Some of the protesters who are eligible for payouts were arrested, while others were not arrested, but had their First Amendment rights infringed by police, their lawsuit claimed.
Protesters who were arrested on charges of violence including trespassing, property destruction, assaulting an officer, or arson or weapons possession will not be eligible for a payout, and those who blocked police from arresting other people may also not be eligible.
The settlement must still be approved by a judge. It would reportedly be one of the most expensive payouts ever over mass arrests.
The plaintiffs' lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild, a left-leaning group, accused the NYPD of violating protesters' First Amendment rights by taking an excessively violent approach and making illegal arrests.
In some instances, police beat and kicked protesters, the lawsuit claimed.
"N.Y.P.D.'s suppression of dissent has continued through numerous mayoral administrations," one of the plaintiffs' lawyers said in a statement.
The city argued the NYPD did not try to quash lawful protests and take away the protesters' constitutional right to demonstrate.
"There is no history - or present or future - of unconstitutional policing," read a memo from Georgia Pestana, an attorney for the city. "There is no frequent deprivation of constitutional rights."
In the days after Floyd's death, about 10,000 people were arrested across the country. The property damage from the riots across the country totaled nearly $2 billion.
In New York, police arrested just over 2,000 people between May 28, three days after Floyd's death, and June 7, according to the New York State attorney general's office.
Thousands of people protested in New York City, some violently. Rioters injured dozens of police officers, damaged dozens of police cars - setting some of them on fire and graffitiing them - and looted or damaged at least 450 businesses.
In one instance, two NYPD officers in Brooklyn were shot and one was stabbed in the neck as they tried to prevent looting during a protest.
The mayor placed the city under a curfew for the first week of June, the city's first curfew in 75 years, but the curfew was frequently violated by protesters.
Although it is the largest, this is not New York's first settlement with protesters who demonstrated over George Floyd.
In March, the city settled with about 300 people who were arrested on June 4, 2020, in the Bronx. Those protesters were awarded $21,500 each.
Police boxed in the hundreds of protesters using a police tactic known as "kettling," the lawsuit from those protesters claimed. Officers restrained them with zip ties and swung at protesters with batons, and sprayed pepper spray at them, the lawsuit said.
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No Big Bob, that is not how it works for smart people, just you Leftists.
I use real math every week, even algebra and trig., so you to preach to another congregation of fools. I treat math in a serious manner; it is imperative that I do so. |
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Stan, 2+2 always = 4. However numbers can be manipulated by anyone to fit their narrative. You know that because you accuse liberals of doing it all the time. Mr. Google disagrees with you.
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No Big Bob: That is absolutely NOT how it works.
Numbers are the language of what is real. Obviously, it is important "on who you ask," but you Big Bob, as a Leftist, has many problems with your resources. |
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Guess it depends on who you ask. Imagine that!
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Big Bob: You are wrong again. In a nation bursting with population growth, the New York Post is reporting "NYC lost 5.3% of its population — nearly a half-million people — since COVID, with most heading South."
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The smart ones leave NYC. A lot of what is coming in are illegal aliens, and they now have about 100,000 of them. Around half of all the hotel rooms, including many in 4 star hotels, in NYC are now filled with illegal aliens at taxpayer expense. Now they are setting up tent cities in parks for more illegal aliens, and interestingly, LEGAL immigrants, who came here the right way are protesting the city government taking over the parks in their neighborhoods for this purpose.
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The current metro area population of New York City in 2023 is 18,937,000, a 0.37% increase from 2022.
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This level of stupid is why the smart people are leaving New York City by the multitudes.
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Little Bobbie seems to be an old time leftie asserting that 2+2 always equals 4, which we conservative would agree with. The modern progressives now like to use Common Core math, under which 2+2 can equal anything you want it to, as long as "social justice" is involved.