New York City agrees to pay more than $21,000 each to hundreds of protesters who were surrounded, arrested, and subjected to excessive force by police during a George Floyd protest in 2020, according to court documents.
A proposed settlement filed in federal court late Tuesday said the city would compensate about 320 people who participated in the protest June 4, 2020, in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx borough.
“The settlement, in our view, reflects an acknowledgment by the city that the NYPD’s actions in Mott Haven on June 4 were tragically wrong," Joshua Moskovitz, an attorney for the protesters, said Wednesday. Hundreds of protesters who were demonstrating against police brutality and racism after Floyd's death were encircled and corralled by a group of police officers wearing riot gear and riding bicycles in a controversial practice known as “kettling.”
“This is believed to be the highest per-person settlement in a mass arrest class action lawsuit in New York City history,” they said.
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