ANALYSIS – In what is again an egregious example of disparate treatment for rioters with different political views, New York City has agreed to pay violent Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters $13.7 million after being sued over the mass arrests in 2020.
If approved by a judge, it would reportedly be one of the most expensive payouts ever over mass arrests.
Each BLM rioter can receive a payout of nearly $10,000 ($9,950 to be exact) as part of the settlement, whether they were arrested or not if their First Amendment rights were found to have been suppressed or infringed on by police. (RELATED: Why Criminals And Law Enforcement Love Your Ring Video Doorbell)
The settlement applies to protestors at 18 marches or demonstrations in Brooklyn and Manhattan between May 28 and June 4 of 2020.
Meanwhile, many nonviolent Jan. 6 Capitol rioters are still in jail pending trial after a massive nationwide FBI manhunt. And others are receiving outrageous prison terms.
The message here is – if you are a left-wing rioter in a left-wing city you can expect to be rewarded, but if you are a conservative rioter in the ‘People’s Republic of D.C.,’ and Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) oversees prosecutions, you will get fried. (RELATED: Judge Reveals Crucial Decision In Trump Documents Case)
Attorneys from the left-leaning National Lawyers Guild accused the NYPD of violating rioters’ First Amendment rights by being excessively violent and making illegal arrests.
However, the riots in NYC were far more violent and damaging and lasted far longer than the few hours-long Capitol riot in D.C.
During the two years of litigation, NYC attorneys argued police tactics had been appropriate to the situation and noted that rioters had thrown projectiles at police and torched police cars. (RELATED: FBI Director Denies Bureau Tougher On Capitol Rioters Than Violent BLM Thugs)
As The Daily Wire reported:
In New York, police arrested just over 2,000 people between May 28, three days after Floyd’s death, and June 7, according to the New York State attorney general’s office.
Thousands of people protested in New York City, some violently. Rioters injured dozens of police officers, damaged dozens of police cars — setting some of them on fire and graffitiing them — and looted or damaged at least 450 businesses.
In one instance, two NYPD officers in Brooklyn were shot and one was stabbed in the neck as they tried to prevent looting during a protest.
The mayor placed the city under a curfew for the first week of June, the city’s first curfew in 75 years, but the curfew was frequently violated by protesters.
Overall, at least 10,000 people were arrested across the country during the summer 2020 BLM riots. They caused nearly $2 billion in damages, the largest from riots in U.S. history.
According to court documents, NYC did not admit fault in the lawsuit but settled to avoid rehashing the events at trial and “resolve the issues raised in this litigation without further proceedings.”
On a positive note, violent BLM rioters who were arrested for trespassing, property destruction, assaulting police, arson, weapons charges and perhaps those who blocked police from arresting other rioters, will not be eligible for a payout.
The settlement must still be approved by a judge.
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American people are going to have to take a firm stand
Be sure that much of that money is kicked back to the NYC communists. Remember this when NYC asks for federal money.
If there ever were a reason to have the U.S. Air Force go in and carpet-bomb one of its own cities, this might qualify as one of ’em.
Law breaking rioters should be shot down in the streets they are terrorizing, looting, burning and attacting law officers.
Well, NYC deserves nothing more than the burn baby burn philosophy as do ALL lib meccas.
god worshiping globalists and all their god worshiping globalist puppets do everything evil and criminal to destroy America .
Criminals paid and supported by creapy politicians?? J6?
See how Mayor Adams thinks, anti NYC
HA! The real INSURRECTION! Another conspiracy theory come true! Was BLM created and trained by the deep state, and hired to inflict the real insurrection on the people? Sure seems like it, especially since they are now paying them for their services, instead of prosecuting them.