A Colorado jury awarded $14 million to protesters who had been injured by Denver cops in 2020 demonstrations towards police brutality.
Jurors deliberated for 4 hours on Friday earlier than reaching a verdict that discovered police used extreme power towards protesters and violated their constitutional rights, Avisionews reported.
Protests swept the nation in 2020 following the police homicide of George Floyd, a Black man from Minneapolis who was killed when a white cop, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for almost 10 minutes.
In Denver, racial justice protesters had been met with pepper spray and police projectiles, together with a Kevlar bag full of lead shot fired from a shotgun within the case of 1 plaintiff. The 12 protesters who sued the town had been awarded between $750,000 and $4 million apiece.
Attorneys for the victims efficiently argued police weren’t correctly educated, resulting in quite a few accidents. Protester Zach Packard was hit within the head by the lead shot shotgun blast and ended up hospitalized, CBS News reported. Different accidents included a cranium fracture, pepper spray used at shut vary on protesters’ eyes, and bruises and cuts from different projectiles.
Attorneys for the town failed to point out proof that the 12 plaintiffs acted violently in the course of the protests.
“There’s such a balm on my soul proper now from that verdict,” Elisabeth Epps, one of many plaintiffs within the case, told Avisionews following the decision.
