One officer punched Michael Jacobs in the head multiple times, while another used a baton to ram Jacobs in the genitals as other officers held him down, the lawsuit alleged.
Denver will pay $350,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who said he was needlessly tackled, punched and beaten in the genitals by police officers while protesting the sweep of a homeless encampment three years ago.
The City Council, during its meeting on Monday afternoon, approved the settlement in a unanimous vote.brought last year by Michael Jacobs against more than a dozen Denver police officers. Jacobs was attending a protest in Civic Center on July 29, 2020, related to the city clearing out an encampment of people experiencing homelessness. He was standing beside, and rattling, a chain-link fence when officers, without any verbal commands, pulled him to the ground, according to the lawsuit andOne officer punched Jacobs in the head multiple times, while another used a baton to ram Jacobs in the genitals as other officers held him down, the lawsuit alleged.
Jacobs repeatedly asked what he was being arrested for. Officers told him he was being detained for trespassing, the body-cam footage showed, despite the fact that he was on the sidewalk.
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