Victim Lindsay Minter is a former law enforcer.
, who is handling several protest cases, including Minter's, earlier this year predicted that Denver will eventually have to pay between $25 and $50 million to settle all the suits. And Mari Newman, McNulty's co-counsel for the Minter case, believes more pricey outlays are likely.
In addition to the City of Denver and Chief Pazen, the defendants in the lawsuit filed May 27 include Commander Patrick Phelan and a trio of officers referred to as"John Does 1-3." According to Newman, on May 30, 2020, during the week that the protests were at their height, Minter was guiding fellow demonstrators through a recitation of words from Assata Shakur:"It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains."
— and Newman believes the way the DPD used them risked worst-case scenarios:"Denver police shot at people's faces, shot at people's genitals, and intentionally deployed these so-called less-than-lethal munitions in a way that was calculated to cause the greatest damage possible.
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