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New York City agreed to pay $21,500 each of several hundred protesters who were captured and in many cases beaten or sprayed with tear gas before being detained
New York City agreed to pay $21,500 each of several hundred protesters who were captured and in many cases beaten or sprayed with tear gas before being detained by police during a protest in 2020 following the killing of an African American George Floyd in the hands of an agent.
NYC City Hall Reached Termination Agreement class action submitted by the victims and sent late Tuesday evening to the trial court, which has yet to approve the terms agreed by the two parties.
By agreement, some 320 people They may choose to receive this compensation, although slightly less than a hundred may be expelled for agreeing to a different type of compensation themselves.
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Thus, in general, New York is expected to spend several million dollars close this case, which joins many others in which the Big Apple authorities have been forced to pay significant sums of money in police violence or abuse.
The protest action in question took place in the area of ​​the city of St. Bronx in June 2020, in the midst of massive demonstrations against racism and police violence that took place in the United States after the death of Floyd.
George Floyd died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after an agent pressed his knee to his neck for more than nine minutes in an attempt to stop him for using counterfeit banknotes to pay at a store.
In New York, the protests have led in some cases to looting and destruction of property which forced the authorities to impose a nighttime curfew and several times led to harsh accusations from the police, including against peaceful demonstrators.
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In the case of the Bronx demonstration, organizations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced that the police had grossly mishandled the planning of this mass arrest operation by corralling the protesters so they could not disperse before curfew and were being overly harsh on people who were only exercising their right to protest.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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