'They dragged me on the ground and beat me with batons,' said one protester. 'Somewhere in the process of being cuffed, I had a knee on my neck.'
, many of them brutally, on June 4, 2020 in the Mott Haven neighborhood while peacefully protesting police violence and systemic racism following the May 25 murder of unarmed Black man George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
"We had every right to protest, yet, the city of New York made an explicit statement that day that the people of the Bronx are at will to be terrorized," 31-year-old Samira Sierra of the Bronx, one of the protesters who sued the city,"We had every right to protest, yet, the city of New York made an explicit statement that day that the people of the Bronx are at will to be terrorized."they hoped the settlement "marks an inflection point for policing in New York City.
"This unprecedented settlement recognizes that the NYPD's actions in Mott Haven were grievously wrong," he said. ;“New York City has agreed to pay $21,500 to each of hundreds of demonstrators who were penned in by NYPD officers in the Bronx during the George Floyd protests in 2020 https://t.co/Y8vWUBZI6G;”
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