The city of New York has agreed to pay $13 million to hundreds of people arrested during the 2020 George Floyd demonstrations, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs, who said it was the largest class action settlement ever paid to protesters in the United States.
The protests in New York City and around the country followed the May 25, 2020, death of Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on Floyd's neck for about nine minutes while he repeatedly cried out for help, saying "I can't breathe."
"While making a massive number of protesters financially whole is an immense victory to be celebrated, the city’s taxpayers will need to keep shelling out millions until City Hall stops bowing to the worst violent whims of the NYPD," Remy Green, one of the plaintiff attorneys, said in a statement, referring to the New York Police Department.
The NYPD said in a statement that it had improved numerous practices for handling protests such as those that took place during the pandemic. Protesters across 18 locations, including Union Square, Central Park and Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, were subjected to improper use of pepper spray, excessive force with batons and other unlawful tactics such as "kettling," court documents show.
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