SAN JOSE — The City Council on Tuesday gave final approval to a $620,000 payout to settle a civil-rights lawsuit filed by seven people who claimed they were unjustly targeted and injured by San Jose police trying to break up crowds during the downtown George Floyd protests five years ago .

Of the settlement amount, $500,000 will go to Derrick Sanderlin and his wife Cayla . The couple sought damages after Sanderlin, while trying to calm tensions between a crowd of demonstrators and a police skirmish line, was shot in the groin with a police projectile by an officer near City Hall on the afternoon of May 29, 2020. His injury drew wide attention because he was an activist who once helped conduct bias training for San Jose police officers.

All of the plaintiffs were either observing or

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