L.A. to pay $300K to man shot in testicle by LAPD projectile during protest

The Los Angeles Metropolis Council on Wednesday accredited a $300,000 lawsuit settlement for a person who misplaced a part of a testicle after he was shot by a police projectile throughout a 2020 protest over the killing of George Floyd.

The council accredited a settlement of David Bond’s federal lawsuit alleging that the LAPD used extreme power and violated his civil rights in utilizing a less-lethal projectile throughout a protest over police brutality and Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police.

The settlement, reached in January after mediation, was one of many first settlements among the many many lawsuits filed over LAPD actions throughout Might and June 2020 protests that despatched hundreds of individuals into the streets, the Los Angeles Instances reported.

Bond contended that he was demonstrating peacefully close to Metropolis Corridor and adopted police instructions to again up earlier than he was shot.

The town mentioned Bond was seen on video utilizing a tennis racket and a salad bowl to defend himself and others from LAPD projectiles however there wasn’t proof that he threatened officers, in line with a metropolis doc on the settlement that was reviewed by the Instances.

Within the wake of criticism and lawsuits, the LAPD offered reforms and new coaching for officers in using less-lethal projectiles.

A category-action lawsuit filed by the group Black Lives Matter Los Angeles additionally led to an injunction that restricts using hard-foam projectiles for crowd management.