Jun 24
Oakland Police Department Settlement: City May Pay $1 Million To Protesters
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe City of Oakland has agreed to pay approximately $1 million to end a lawsuit filed on behalf of 150 demonstrators alleging police misconduct in their 2010 mass arrest.
The preliminary settlement approved by a federal judge ends the class-action lawsuit filed by the National Lawyers Guild on behalf of 150 people arrested but not charged with a crime during a protest in November 2010. The protest followed the sentencing of former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle for the shooting death of Oscar Grant, which the demonstrators complained was unacceptably light.
During the demonstration, protesters said, police funneled them onto a side street, where officers surrounded them and announced they were under arrest.
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