12 George Floyd protesters file lawsuit against Denver police

DENVER (KDVR) — A brand new lawsuit was filed towards the Metropolis and County of Denver Tuesday on behalf of 12 protestors alleging unconstitutional assaults by the Denver Police Division throughout the 2020 George Floyd protests.

The lawsuit follows a jury trial in March, the place the Metropolis and County of Denver was discovered chargeable for $14 million for violating the First and Fourth Modification rights of the protesters who filed go well with, who claimed police damage them throughout the demonstrations.

The brand new lawsuit states that officers with the Denver Police Division used “constitutionally illegal crowd management ways, together with kettling, indiscriminate and unwarned launching of tear fuel and flashbangs into crowds and at people, and capturing projectiles at protestors….DPD and its mutual-aid officers knowingly positioned these protestors in bodily hazard by way of indiscriminate use of extreme drive.”

Two attorneys who have been part of the $14 million go well with, Elizabeth Wang and Makeba Rutahindurwa of Loevy & Loevy, are attorneys for the plaintiffs within the new go well with as effectively.

In keeping with Wang and Rutahindurwa, the go well with additionally claims that police used quite a lot of ways to intimidate and deter individuals from “exercising their First Modification proper to train freedom of speech, peaceably assemble, and petition for redress of grievances.”

“Regardless of being roundly condemned by a federal jury within the earlier go well with, Denver’s policymakers proceed to dig of their heels and refuse to confess any wrongdoing on the a part of the officers they in the end supervise,” mentioned Wang. “This head-in-the-sand angle is a recipe for additional police violence and different critical civil rights violations. Denver’s absolute refusal to think about vital institutional and coverage adjustments and disciplining of violent officers is irresponsible from each public security and public finance views.”

One other man claiming to have been injured throughout the George Floyd protests in Might 2020 filed a lawsuit towards the Metropolis and County of Denver in April.