A federal jury has awarded $14 million in compensatory and punitive damages to 12 Black Lives Matter protesters who were injured by police during a riot over the death of George Floyd in 2020.
The jury decided that the protesters constitutional rights were violated by the Denver Police over their use of less-lethal weapons to try and break up the riot.
“The violence and destruction that occurred around the community required intervention,” one of Denver’s lawyers, Lindsay Jordan, told the jurors.
The activists sued the City and County of Denver and former police officer Jonathan Christian.
Christian was accused of shooting current state legislative candidate Elisabeth Epps with a pepper ball.
“The jurors found Christian violated Epps’ Fourth Amendment rights and awarded her $250,000 in punitive damages. They denied her First Amendment claims against him,” the Denver Gazette reports. “At trial the two sides disputed whether the pepper ball fired by Christian actually hit Epps. She said after the verdict came down it had felt ‘disorienting’ for the city to challenge her account of what she experienced.”
Jackpot baby. Like winning the lottery.
Better instead REWARD 14 Million $$$$ to Jan 06 2021 Legal Protestors !!!!!
Yes , to those ILLEGALLY held in D.C jail over a Year with NO charges !!!! Worth Billions $$$$
They DON’T deserve a PENNY !!!!!! Should be Illegal !!!!! All because they are BLACK they get Rewarded !!!!
How can Govt Reward a Criminal organization !!!! Hell NO !!!!
How can this be??????!!!!!!!