The city of Denver, Colorado, is set to pay a total of $14 million in damages to George Floyd protesters.
Jurors on Friday found police used excessive force against protesters, violating their constitutional rights, during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd two years ago, ordering the city of Denver, Colorado, to pay a total of $14 million in damages to a group of 12 who sued.
The protesters who sued were shot at or hit by everything from pepper spray to a Kevlar-bag filled with lead shot fired from a shotgun. Zach Packard, who was hit in the head by the shotgun blast and ended up in the intensive care unit, received the largest damage amount: $3 million. Elisabeth Epps, a lawyer and activist who was one of the protesters who sued, said the attorneys for the city she loves gaslighted the protesters during the trial, questioning their account of what happened. At one point, a lawyer for Denver called her a"professional protester" after she testified that she had attended protests since she was a child and had received training about how to respond to being tear-gassed.
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