Antifa awarded $1.6 million, 1-6 protesters rot in solitary with violent guards
Many of the January 6th Capitol protesters/rioters have been overcharged, perhaps all, and they have been stripped of their civil rights. Many are in solitary in a DC federal pen.
At least one protester Ryan Samsel was “severely beaten” by racist DC correctional officers and is now “blind in one eye, has a skull fracture,” and a “detached retina.” according to his attorney.
Politico reports the tensions are high among jail guards and inmates at a DC jail that housed many of the defendants in the January 6th protest/riot.
The Washington, D.C., government settled two lawsuits on Monday over mass arrests made during former President Trump
D.C. and the organizations that brought the lawsuits filed court papers stating that the city government will pay $1.6 million to settle both cases, according to a press release from the American Civil Liberties Union s (ACLU) D.C. chapter.
The two lawsuits claimed that more than 200 protesters, many of whom did not violate any laws, were rounded up and detained by officers after a small number of demonstrators vandalized and damaged property.
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According to the ACLU of D.C., the individuals detained by police were held for up to 16 hours without access to food, water or restrooms. Police also deployed pepper spray, flash-bang grenades, concussion grenades and stingballs against the protesters.
UpdatedTue, Apr 27, 2021 at 11:45 am ET
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Metropolitan Police Department officers kettled, or corralled, a group of protesters at the corner of 12th and L streets in D.C. on Jan. 20, 2017, the day of President Donald Trump s inauguration. (Mark Hand/Patch)
WASHINGTON, DC The D.C. government will pay $1.6 million to settle two lawsuits that alleged Metropolitan Police Department officers unlawfully detained more than 200 protesters in mass arrests the day of Donald Trump s presidential inauguration in January 2017.
The demonstrators represented by the ACLU of the District of Columbia and Jeffrey L. Light alleged that D.C. police violated the constitutional rights of journalists, legal observers and protesters by indiscriminately rounding them up in downtown Washington on Jan. 20, 2017.
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D.C. settles lawsuits over Trump inauguration protest arrests
Police officers pepper spray a group of protestors before the inauguration of then-President elect Trump Jan. 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Photo: Zach Gibson/AFP via Getty Images
The D.C. government agreed Monday to a $1.6 million settlement in two lawsuits that alleged police unlawfully detained over 200 protesters and other constitutional violations during former President Trump s January 2017 inauguration.
Driving the news: The suits accuse Metropolitan Police Department officers and then-Police Chief Peter Newsham of being responsible for the mass arrests of demonstrators without probable cause, unlawful conditions of confinement for detainees, and/or use of excessive force, per a statement from the ACLU.