City of Toledo agrees to $800,000 settlement in 2020 protest lawsuit
Council still has to sign off on settlement
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - The City of Toledo has agreed to a settlement in a lawsuit stemming from the 2020 George Floyd protests.
16 people sued the City of Toledo, the Toledo Police Chief and specific officers, claiming that officers used excessive force when they fired wooden and rubber bullets from a SWAT vehicle at protesters on the streets during the protests on May 30, 2020.
The city previously agreed to pay $400,000 to 14 of the plaintiffs in the excessive force lawsuit.
Two additional plaintiffs reached a combined $800,000 settlement with the city that council members will be asked to approve later this month, records show.
Council is set to vote on whether to approve the settlement at its Jan. 14 meeting. The money would come from the city’s Risk Management Fund.
The proposed settlement Council will vote on says the city agreed to payments of $200,000 to Robert Kowalski and $600,000 to Saray Pratt, and to their attorneys.
The lawsuit claims that rather than keeping the peace and “protecting and facilitating protected free speech and assembly,” police officers “brutalized peaceful protesters, shooting wooden and rubber bullets indiscriminately and directly at people, causing serious injury, pain, and fear.”
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