On 20 Jul 2023, Oscar White <nowomr@protonmail.com> posted some
news:u9cj9r$2ub90$14@dont-email.me:

> Put the niggers on barges and send them back to Africa.

New York City will give more than $13 million to more than 1,000
protesters arrested or interacting with police during the 2020 Black Lives
Matter protests following a civil rights lawsuit settlement filed in
Manhattan federal court Wednesday.

Experts said the settlement, which allows the city to avoid a trial, would
be among the most expensive payouts ever for mass arrests. It still needs
to be approved by a judge before it is finalized.

The lawsuit focused on 18 protests that erupted in New York City in the
week following George Floyd�s death in May. According to attorneys for the
plaintiffs, eligible persons can receive $9,950 in compensation.

Protests and riots following the 2020 killing of Floyd resulted in at
least 18 deaths, $350 million worth of property damage in the Minneapolis
area, and nearly $2 billion nationwide. About 10,000 people were arrested
in the span of a few days.

NEW YORK CITY COULD PAY BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTERS $21K EACH OVER
RIGHTS 'VIOLATIONS' IN 2020

Several other cities across the U.S. are negotiating their own settlements
concerning officers� handling of protesters who spilled into the streets,
with some causing fires, throwing objects, breaking windows and damaging
buildings.

Protesters arrested in connection with violence � those arrested on
charges including trespassing, property destruction, assaulting an
officer, arson or weapons possession � will be excluded from the
settlement. Those seen on video blocking police from making arrests may
also be ineligible.

The lawsuit named former Mayor Bill de Blasio and retired NYPD
Commissioner Dermot Shea, as well as other police leaders, as defendants.
Under the settlement agreement, neither the city nor the NYPD is required
to admit any wrongdoing.

BLM CALLED OUT FOR RECEIVING MILLIONS, NOT HELPING BLACK AMERICANS: �BLACK
LIVES DON�T MATTER'

Attorneys with the National Lawyers Guild, representing the plaintiffs in
New York, accused these NYPD leaders of depriving protesters of their
First Amendment rights through brutal tactics and unlawful arrests.

Attorneys for the city maintained police officers were responding to a
chaotic and unprecedented situation and highlighted unruly protests where
police vehicles were set on fire and officers pelted with rocks and
plastic bottles.

Attorneys for the city said there was no systematic effort to deprive
people of their right to protest.

"There is no history � or present or future � of unconstitutional
policing," Georgia Pestana, an attorney for the city, wrote in a memo.
"There is no frequent deprivation of constitutional rights."

BLACK LIVES MATTER AT SCHOOL WEEK OF ACTION KICKS OFF FOR THOUSANDS OF US
SCHOOLS

The city also invoked qualified immunity, which protects police officers
from lawsuits stemming from lawful work performed in the line of duty.

So they run a picture of a white whore at a BLM protest.

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The settlement does not force the NYPD to change its policing practices,
unlike several other lawsuits aimed at injunctive relief, which remain
ongoing, such as one brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Another class action settlement announced earlier this year would award
$21,500 to demonstrators in the Bronx who were arrested. The payout could
total around $10 million, including legal fees.

Separately, more than 600 people have brought individual claims against
New York City related to police action during the 2020 protests, according
to the city�s comptroller, Brad Lander. Settlements in these cases have
cost the city nearly $12 million.

Fox News' Brian Flood and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

karminia
7 hours ago

So they are getting paid for destruction. Way to go. Now that they know
that if you destroy a city you will get paid is an incentive to keep doing
the same destruction, maybe worse.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-agrees-pay-black-lives-matter-
protesters-13-million-new-mass-arrests-settlement