A judge allowed five plaintiffs, including a man who lost his eye, to argue to a jury that their First and Fourth Amendment rights were violated when officers unleashed volleys of projectiles to di…
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Other plaintiffs allowed to eventually argue in front a federal civil jury include a woman shoved or jabbed with batons “at least seventeen times” by two officers, a woman hit by projectiles while observing the protests, a man shoved to the ground by police and who claims he was hit by multiple projectiles, and a man who was hit with a projectile in his groin while pacing back and forth in front of a police line.
The judge also dismissed as plaintiffs two organizations, the local NAACP chapter and the San Jose Peace & Justice Center, after ruling that they lacked the standing to sue. Several members of the SJPD brass at the time were also dismissed as defendants, though Hamilton did allow claims against three police supervisors to go to a jury after deciding their orders to use projectile launchers could be directly tied to the plaintiffs’ injuries.
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