Posted on 03/01/2023 9:54:09 PM PST by lowbridge
New York City is planning to compensate protesters from a 2020 demonstration following George Floyd's death with $21,500 each in a new settlement.
In the proposed settlement, the city has agreed to pay $21,500 to each member of the class-action suit, plus an additional $2,500 to those who were issued "Desk Appearance Tickets."
If it is approved by a judge, the settlement could amount to an estimated $4 million to $6 million. There were reportedly around 300 people in attendance at the protest, and roughly 90 have already settled with the city regarding alternative complaints.
The class-action suit participants alleged "violations of their rights under the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments" stemming from a June 4, 2020, protest, when police allegedly boxed demonstrators in.
The settlement could end up being one of the largest of its kinds if approved.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Paying their Marxist army for a job well-done.
violations of their rights under the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments”
Nice to see the constitution and the bill of rights works for some .......and not for the tax paying PATRIOTIC AMERICANS
Don’t you think its time to turn this tide?
And the families of all those elderly people in the nursing homes who were murdered by Andrew Cuomo using the Chinese WMD Covid get nothing but the ashes of their loved ones...
If this is hush money I’d be asking for lot more than $21,500.00. They should go full SanFran... 5 Million payment, plus a lifetime payments of 95k per year, all debts forgiven, free food and housing. What the hell’s going on here?!
I don’t heart NY.
They will be paid in years, not dollars.
And the lady is only a little bit pregnant, too.
I was there, I was there, really I was there protesting. Where’s my check?
Sounds to me like this is a plan to send taxpayer dollars to lawyers. IF it goes through, AND if it is successful, participants in this suit will end up opening envelopes containing checks for $.47.
Where’s the lawsuit? If they can prove their rights were trampled on, they may win. However, it would take a clever lawyer to explain breaking doors and windows to get into a building they had no business being in at that time. Good luck just the same.
I identify with being a BLM protestor.
When is my check coming?
During that time , supposedly it was illegal to gather together because of the COVID-19.
Yup - police bad - pay them.
It'll be chump change compared to what the city WOULD have paid if these folks had been UNboxed to vent their rage upon being born in America.
Waste of money. We’ve been spending government money for years, and things are worse now.
I though they were already paid by a Soros group. Isn’t this double dipping?
Not only were they allowed to commit crime but they’re being paid for it.
Who says crime doesn’t pay?
>Where’s the lawsuit?<
This is the lawsuit. These kind of shenanigans have been going on for a while. Leftists groups sue leftist cities and the leftist DAs reach a settlement (without trial) to give the leftist group taxpayer money.
Think Stacy Abrams suing for election changes, with her sister as the judge.
EC
Somebody is going to get rich fast when he/she turns in the ghost list of names.
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