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City of Minneapolis settles with people injured during the May 2020 unrest
Minneapolis settles lawsuit with Linda Tirado, journalist blinded in one eye during May 2020 unrestThe Minneapolis City Council on Thursday agreed to pay a $600,000 settlement in a lawsuit brought by writer and photojournalist Linda Tirado, who was blinded in one eye by a police projectile while covering protests in May 2020.
Tirado joins an ever-growing list of bystanders and journalists receiving large settlements from the city due to the behavior of police officers in the days after the police murder of George Floyd, raising still more concerns about the city’s management of the unrest. An independent auditor who conducted an after-action review of the response said there was “a vast, vast void in consistent rules of engagement or control” during the unrest.
Tirado said she came to Minneapolis after Floyd’s murder because she thought it would be a catalyst for civil unrest and was important to document. In a lawsuit filed nearly two years ago, Tirado alleged a police officer pointed a projectile launcher at her and shot her in the face with a 40mm impact round, rupturing her left eye and causing a brain injury.
Protesters brought Tirado to street medics, and someone drove her to the hospital. Despite immediate surgery, she permanently lost eyesight in her left eye.
“That part of my career was effectively ended May 29, 2020,” Tirado said in an interview with the Reformer as she recounted her injuries. Without depth perception, she uses a walker to get around and finds it difficult to pour coffee in the morning. She also has trouble recalling words.
Tirado joins an ever-growing list of bystanders and journalists receiving large settlements from the city due to the behavior of police officers in the days after the police murder of George Floyd, raising still more concerns about the city’s management of the unrest. An independent auditor who conducted an after-action review of the response said there was “a vast, vast void in consistent rules of engagement or control” during the unrest.
Tirado said she came to Minneapolis after Floyd’s murder because she thought it would be a catalyst for civil unrest and was important to document. In a lawsuit filed nearly two years ago, Tirado alleged a police officer pointed a projectile launcher at her and shot her in the face with a 40mm impact round, rupturing her left eye and causing a brain injury.
Protesters brought Tirado to street medics, and someone drove her to the hospital. Despite immediate surgery, she permanently lost eyesight in her left eye.
“That part of my career was effectively ended May 29, 2020,” Tirado said in an interview with the Reformer as she recounted her injuries. Without depth perception, she uses a walker to get around and finds it difficult to pour coffee in the morning. She also has trouble recalling words.
Minneapolis council approves $645k settlement to man who was beaten, tased
The city of Minneapolis will pay $645,000 to a man who was beaten and tased for two minutes as he and his friend Jaleel Stallings tried to surrender to police.
The settlement is the latest in a string of expensive settlements with people who say they were the victims of police misconduct in the days after George Floyd’s police killing.
Virgil Lee Jackson Jr., Stallings and others were standing in a parking lot on Lake Street five days after Floyd’s killing when a Minneapolis SWAT team fired 40mm plastic projectiles at them, striking Stallings, an Army veteran, in the chest.
Mistaking the officers for white supremacists, Stallings fired back with his pistol, purposely missing, he would later testify.
The officers jumped out of the van, and even though Stallings and Jackson both tried to surrender, they beat Stallings for 30 seconds, and beat and tased Jackson for two minutes. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the FBI are investigating the SWAT team’s actions that night.
The settlement is the latest in a string of expensive settlements with people who say they were the victims of police misconduct in the days after George Floyd’s police killing.
Virgil Lee Jackson Jr., Stallings and others were standing in a parking lot on Lake Street five days after Floyd’s killing when a Minneapolis SWAT team fired 40mm plastic projectiles at them, striking Stallings, an Army veteran, in the chest.
Mistaking the officers for white supremacists, Stallings fired back with his pistol, purposely missing, he would later testify.
The officers jumped out of the van, and even though Stallings and Jackson both tried to surrender, they beat Stallings for 30 seconds, and beat and tased Jackson for two minutes. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the FBI are investigating the SWAT team’s actions that night.
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