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Under the deal, which is subject to City Council approval, the money would go to 32 plaintiffs who said they were injured by the police during 2020 social justice protests.
More than two dozen plaintiffs who say they were brutalized by Columbus police during protests against racial injustice last year have asked a federal judge to order immediate changes to officers’ use of pepper spray, wooden bullets and other so-called "non-lethal weapons" on nonviolent protesters. Chief U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley is nearing a decision on the preliminary injunction, with responses form both sides filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Columbus. “The primary goal of everybody involved — lawyers and the individuals whose ...