New York City to pay millions to victims of police abuse during 2020 protests

New York, March 3 (RHC)-- New York City has agreed to pay a multimillion-dollar settlement to protesters who were aggressively “boxed in” or “kettled” by NYPD officers during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations that swept the country following the police murder of George Floyd in 2020. 

Over 300 people who were kettled, then beaten, detained or arrested by New York police at the June 4, 2020, Bronx protest will each receive $21,500.  It’s believed to be the largest class-action settlement in a case of mass arrest.

 About a third of the demonstrators also previously settled with the city in separate claims.  A Human Rights Watch investigation said the NYPD’s conduct that day amounted to “serious violations of international human rights law.”