The City Council has approved $1.5 million in settlements for six people who sued Denver over the police departmentap use of force during the 2020 George Floyd protests.
The payouts, approved Tuesday in a block vote, are for plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by the Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer law firm in 2022. The council approved a $1.06 million settlement in the same case, involving different plaintiffs, last month.
In , the five plaintiffs who will receive a combined $1.2 million payout are Derek Buranen, Gareth Doskey, Jack Girard, Robert Greer and Kevin Kreeger. The amounts to $300,000 and goes to Jazmine Bjelland.
The plaintiffs alleged in the lawsuit that police used excessive force and violated their constitutional rights by deploying tear gas, chemical irritants, projectiles, grenades and pepper spray. The case is one of many the city has faced over police conduct in the 2020 protests.
