New York City may have to pay millions of dollars in a class-action suit over the actions of NYPD officers who 'kettled' protesters in the Bronx in June 2020.
As an 8 p.m. curfew neared, New York Police Department officers bicycled around the protesters and “kettled” them: Officers in body armor blocked the crowd from both ends of East 136th Street in the Mott Haven neighborhood, trapping them with no way to disperse, according to aHenry Wood was lifted up by an NYPD officer and thrown to the ground as he huddled over a young woman who’d fallen over, according to a complaint in a class-action lawsuit.
Amali Sierra said in a news release announcing the agreement: “This settlement serves as testimony of the wrongdoing by the hands of the NYPD, and it is a reminder that this institution is not built to protect Black and Brown communities.”The NYPD said in its own statement that the period was a “challenging moment” and that it has revised its policies for policing large-scale demonstrations since 2020. When asked for comment, the city of New York referred to the NYPD’s statement.
The NYPD’s actions drew condemnation from watchdog groups and residents. Observers described a display of violence and disregard for legal protections that punctuated a tense week already marked by images of police brutality.“The violence unleashed upon us that night was intentional, unwarranted, and will be with me for the rest of my life,” Wood said in the attorneys’ news release.
“We had a plan which was executed nearly flawlessly in the Bronx,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said in a news conference the next day.
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