New York City has agreed to pay over $50,000 to an Occupy Wall Street protester who said police unjustly blasted her with pepper spray.
Lawyers for both sides said Tuesday they resolved Kelly Schomburg’s suit for $50,001, plus yet-to-be-determined legal fees.
Schomburg’s lawyer, Debra Lea Greenberger, says the agreement “provided a measure of justice.” The city Law Department says ending the case was best for the city.
The Daily News first reported the settlement.
In recent weeks, the city settled six other similar suits for a total of $332,500.
Online video of a September 2011 Occupy march showed police Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna (boh-LOH’-nyah) pepper-spraying protesters corralled behind orange netting. The images helped galvanize the anti-economic-inequality movement.
Bologna was docked 10 vacation days for violating police department guidelines.
(AP)
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i think this is ridiculous. when a police officer is hurt by a citizen does he get to sue them ?
if these people would not have been sleeping in the streets and urinating etc there then there would have been no need for police at all. they broke the law. why arent they accountable