New York City has agreed to pay $75,000 to one of the protesters struck by an NYPD cruiser during the 2020 protests against police brutality.
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A spokesperson for the city’s Law Department confirmed the settlement was recently reached with Aaron Ross, a 35-year-old Sheepshead Bay resident. Ross was among a crowd of demonstrators who were rammed by officers driving NYPD SUVs on Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope after protesters blocked the officers’ path and threw debris at their vehicles.
Video of the May 30, 2020 clash circulated widely online and became a defining image of the protests that gripped the city in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. In his lawsuit, Ross said he suffered herniated discs and spinal trauma after the police officer accelerated into him. He described his reaction to the settlement as “bittersweet,” questioning why the officers involved had still not faced discipline.
“I’m happy to know that I won my lawsuit, but at the same time I’m angry the police are not going to be criminally prosecuted for the crime they committed against me and dozens of other protesters,” he said.The settlement comes after city taxpayers paid out $121 million in police misconduct lawsuits last year, the
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