Denver has paid yet another settlement, this time $1.06 million, to end a police misconduct lawsuit stemming from the George Floyd protests in the summer of 2020.

The money was paid to several plaintiffs in the Jazmine Bjelland, et. al. v. City and County of Denver case.

The complaint argued the police used excessive force and brutality in targeting “peaceful demonstrators.” Doing so, the suit continues, they violated many people’s First Amendment rights.

“Plaintiffs demand that Denver and its police department accept and act in accordance with the principle that Black lives matter equally in our society and stop using indiscriminate or unlawfully targeted force against peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights to assemble, speak, and petition their government for a re

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