Luz Del Carmen Salama-Tobar and her two friends were at the protest near the White House when Park Police forcibly cleared the area.
Demonstrators gather near the White House on May 30, 2020, following the death of George Floyd, in Minneapolis. Luz Del Carmen Salama-Tobar was getting ready to take a picture. It was May 30, 2020, five days after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. The Fulbright scholar who had been working and teaching in El Salvador was back home and attending a racial justice protest in downtown D.C. with two close friends, sisters Daphne and Electra Bolotas. Night had just fallen.
When the police advanced at just after 9 p.m. that night, Salama-Tobar was hit in the eye with a projectile that left her bleeding and half-blindher lawyers said in court filings. A single officer, according to the lawsuit, hit Electra in the head with a baton and then knocked Daphne Bolotas to the ground. Daphne’s wrist was broken; Electra suffered a concussion. Both had to shield themselves from tear gas canisters and rubber bullets after suffering those injuries.
Daphne Bolotas, a preschool teacher from Falls Church at the time, ultimately needed surgery and still had pain in her wrist over a year later, according to the lawsuit. Electra Bolotas, a high school teacher in D.C., said she had severe migraine headaches after the protest. Both said they were “deeply traumatized” in a way that makes them afraid to join any future protest.All three said officers gave them no warning or order to disperse, and that they did nothing to justify such aggression.
D.C. police declined to comment but said in court filings that there was no violation of the women’s rights by local law enforcement: “Their movement was briefly curtailed.” The federal government never admitted that a Park Police projectile caused Salama-Tobar’s injury, saying its possible the injury came from another protester. In the settlement, they admit no wrongdoing. In court filings, Justice Department attorneys said the police were attempting to reinstate a “buffer zone” after protesters had breached one of two rows of bike-rack fencing separating them from the officers. That night andA spokesman for the U.S.
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