Since the occupy movement rocked oakland. 1. 3million being paid to protestors who claimed they were illegally detained for days after a nighttime confrontation with police in front of the y. They did not give the people they arrested an opportunity to leave. And they were kept at santa rita for as long as 3 1 2 days. Reporter its not even the biggest settlement. In july 2013 police paid 1. 7 million to protestors hit by beanbags fired by police. Last year the city paid out 4. 5 million to iraqi war vet scott olsen when he was hit knit head by a police canister. And now this latest one. Add in the estimated 2. 5 million that the city paid on Police Overtime and thats 9. 4 million and counting it boggles the mind. Yes. We have a lot of other things id prefer we spend money on. Its here. Thats a lot of money. It was a wasteful expense for the city of oakland. Im so committed to never having to go through that again. Reporter now, since then the police have tightened up on their crowd tac