By Malaika Jabali ·Updated July 20, 2023
The City of New York settled a lawsuit Wednesday of about $13.7 million after allegations of mistreating over 1,000 protestors in the wake of the George Floyd’s killing in summer 2020.
The New York Times cites an example of one the plaintiffs represented in the class-action lawsuit, where one officer lunged at a protestor as she was recording a confrontation with police, “knocked the