New York City has agreed to pay millions to people who were boxed in and pepper-sprayed by police, in one of the highest per-person payouts over mass arrests.
New York City has agreed to pay at least $21,500 each to individuals who say they were boxed in, pepper-sprayed and arrested by police in the Bronx during social justice protests in the summer of 2020.
“It’s large numbers of people who were not brutally injured, but who were peacefully protesting, and the police just illegally shut down those protests,” Moran said. The lawsuit alleged that minutes after curfew began, police began to attack the crowd using batons, shields and pepper spray before arresting 312 people. Charges against everyone were dismissed by the Bronx district attorney’s office.
Among the demonstrators kettled in Mott Haven was Henry Wood, one of five plaintiffs named in the suit.
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