A federal judge on Wednesday tossed out the city of Detroit s legal claims against Detroit Will Breathe protesters, concluding it failed to prove that demonstrators conspired with one another to cause civil unrest and harm police officers over the summer.
That s what the city argued after getting hit with a lawsuit last fall that sought to ban Detroit police from using batons, riot gear, tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters marching against police brutality.
Detroit Will Breathe filed the lawsuit and secured a temporary restraining order against the use of those tactics. But then the group got hit with a counterclaim by the city, alleging that protesters were part of a civil conspiracy to destroy property, hurt police officers and incite rioting.
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Protesters and Detroit Riot Police officers engage in an escalating series of confrontations in Downtown Detroit following a day of protests for the death of George Floyd on May 29, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images)
A photograph of me placed in a chokehold by a Detroit police officer went viral. The chokehold occurred on July 10 at a protest held after the Detroit Police Department murdered
Hakim Littleton, a 20-year-old Black man.
The city of Detroit is claiming I was never placed in a chokehold. see below pic.twitter.com/pssT1PlNqt Nakia Wallace (@NakiaRWallace) December 4, 2020
Police Chief