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DENVER (AP) — A federal jury’s $14 million award to Denver protesters hit with pepper balls and a bag filled with lead during 2020 demonstrations over the police killing of

DENVER — A federal jury's $14 million award to Denver protesters hit with pepper balls and a bag filled with lead during 2020 demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis could resonate nationwide as courts weigh more than two dozen similar lawsuits. The jury found police

Nationwide, there are at least 29 pending lawsuits challenging law enforcement use of force during the 2020 protests over the police killing of George Floyd.

Denver's police union president Nick Rogers said ""DPD acted with honor, integrity, courage." Jury awarded 12 plaintiffs $14 million 2020 social justice protests.

Jurors in the civil case found that the Denver Police used excessive force against the 12 plaintiffs.

Although Colorado law allows pretrial detainees to sue jail operators for injuries "due to negligence," the state Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the law also permits the sheriff of

“The whole time I never heard any warning. The only warning I heard that day was ‘pow, pow, pow,’ shots fired.”

The Glassboro School District sold its 92-year-old Intermediate School to Rowan University for $3.4 million, the district announced March 8.

Amid declining enrollment in Glassboros public school district, Rowan University purchases its Intermediate School spurring a grade 1-8 building reconfiguration.

The governor commuted Rogel Aguilera-Mederos’s sentence and the 26-year-old will be eligible for parole in five years