New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that swept through the city during the summer of 2020.
If approved by a judge, the settlement, which was filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, would be among the most expensive payouts ever awarded in a lawsuit over mass arrests, experts said.
It comes as many other cities across the U.S. are negotiating their own settlements with protesters who spilled into the streets to decry racist police brutality after Floyd's death, a period of unrest that saw 10,000 people arrested in the span of a few days. A spokesperson for the NYPD deferred questions to the city's Law Department, which did not respond to a request for comment.
While attorneys for the plaintiffs cited past crackdowns on large demonstrations, including during the 2004 Republican National Convention, as evidence of longstanding "systemic violations" by the NYPD, attorneys for the city said there was no systematic effort to deprive people of their right to protest.
Protesters who were arrested on certain charges - including trespassing, property destruction, assaulting an officer, arson or weapons possession - will be excluded from the settlement. Those who were seen on video blocking police from making arrests may also be ineligible.
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