Protesters To Receive Five-Figure Payouts for Police Actions During NYC George Floyd Violence
New York City taxpayers are on the hook for as much as $7 million to the protesters and another $2.5 million in lawyers’ fees in the case.
Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters who marched in New York City after the death of George Floyd in 2020 will receive $21,500 each from the city because police used what was described as heavy-handed tactics to enforce a curfew and tamp down several nights of violence and looting that engulfed the city that summer.
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