That's one expensive finger.
Photographer Trevor Hughes nearly had a finger blown off when he was shot with a projectile while trying to capture an image of law enforcement officers during the. He filed suit last year, and on October 20, attorney Andrew McNulty of Denver-based Killmer, Lane & Newman LLP revealed that a settlement agreement has been reached with several municipalities, including Denver, Golden, Arvada and Jefferson County.
The combined settlement comes to $485,000, and it continues a trend of big-bucks payouts. Back in January, McNulty predicted that the complaints over brutal behavior by Denver Police Department officers during the social-justice demonstrations wouldCops from so many different agencies and departments responded to the rallies in downtown Denver that it was hard to determine who was responsible for particular actions.
"Trevor is a professional photographer," McNulty notes."He mainly does portraits by trade, but he went out to document the protests in solidarity with folks who were protesting the murder of George Floyd and police brutality in Denver." Hughes was with a group of marchers that came to a halt in an intersection when their route was blocked by a phalanx of police, McNulty continues,"and some of the protesters kneeled in front of the officers, who started shooting projectiles. Trevor backed away and started recording what was happening, and that's when his camera was blown out of his hand."
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