The City of New York agreed to pay a $13.7 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by protesters who accused NYPD officers of using unlawful policing tactics and violating the rights of demonstrators during the 2020 protests and rioting sparked by the death of George Floyd.

The city has agreed to pay out $9,950 per person to up to 1,380 people who were “arrested and/or subjected to force by N.Y.P.D. officers” during protests at 18 different locations throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn in May and June of 2020, according to the New York Times. 

New York City has agreed to pay out $13 million to more than a thousand New Yorkers arrested in the summer 2020 George Floyd demonstrations, marking one of the largest settlement agreements with protesters in a class-action suit in U.S. history, according to court records filed late Wednesday.

At least 19 cities will pay settlements to protesters who sustained injuries as a result of law enforcement action

Cities across the US have agreed to pay out a total of more than $80m in settlements to protesters injured by police during 2020 racial justice protests – a figure experts believe is unprecedented and will rise further as many lawsuits are still playing out.