George Floyd Riots: Jury Grants $14 Million to 12 “Protesters” Because Police Were Mean to Them

This is effectively institutionalizing a “right to riot” – if you’re black.

It is illegal for the police to stop you.

But only if you’re black.

New York Post:

Jurors in Colorado ordered Denver to pay $14 million to 12 plaintiffs after they concluded on Friday police used excessive force against the protesters and violated their constitutional rights during demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd two years ago.

Lawyers who worked on the civil case in the U.S. District Court of Colorado believe it is the first trial in a lawsuit challenging police tactics during the 2020 protests that took place across the country in response to a Minneapolis police officer killing Floyd.

A top lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, which represented the plaintiffs, hailed the decision.

“The verdict is a message to the police department, to the highest echelons of the police department, but also a message to police departments all over the country,” said Mark Silverstein, legal director with the Colorado ACULU, according to the New York Times.

The jury that issued the verdict — coming following three weeks of testimony and disclosure of evidence, including police and protester video of incidents — was made up of two men and six women, mostly white and drawn from around Colorado. They returned their verdict Friday after about four hours of deliberations.

The protesters who sued were injured by police use of items like pepper spray and a Kevlar-bag filled with lead shot fired from a shotgun. Zach Packard — who was hit in the head by the shotgun blast and ended up in a hospital intensive care unit — received $3 million, the highest amount among the plaintiffs.

One protestor, Dr. Stanford Smith, was talking with a group of protesters when an officer sprayed him in the face with pepper spray without warning, according to the complaint.

“I feared for my life, because I couldn’t see, I couldn’t breathe,” he told The Times.

Say no more, brother. Even a virus as deadly as coronavirus gave the rioters some space to mourn the loss of George Floyd, but the police refused to do the same.

If that isn’t proof that the real pandemic of our time is the police force, then what is?

No coronavirus ever killed George Floyd.