On the evening of June 2, 2020, Sabrina Zurkuhlen joined a protest march on the West Side Highway that was spurred by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis eight days earlier.
An officer pointed at her, the lawsuit said, lunged at her, knocked the phone from her hands and began striking her with a baton as he tackled her.
That summons was later dismissed, the suit said, adding that she never recovered her phone.
On Wednesday, the City of New York agreed to pay about $13.7 million to settle the class-action suit, which said that unlawful police tactics had violated the rights of protesters over several days in late May and early June of 2020.
officers” at 18 specific locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Persons:
Sabrina Zurkuhlen, George Floyd, Zurkuhlen, lunged, “, N.Y.P.D, ”
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Locations:
Minneapolis, Vesey, Manhattan, City of New York, Brooklyn