Thu Sep 7, 2023 – 6:10 pm EDT
DENVER, Colorado (LifeSiteNews) – The Denver City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve a $4.7 million settlement with more than 300 protesters arrested during the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots for violating a curfew order they claim was enforced in an unconstitutional, discriminatory manner.
In May 2020, the death of a Minneapolis criminal during a police altercation sparked a wave of protests across the country predicated on the narrative that the incident was symptomatic of systemic racism in American law enforcement rather than an isolated case of misconduct for which the officer involved was investigated, tried, and ultimately convicted and sentenced to 22.5 years in prison. Many of those protests devolved into rioting that led to killing, injury, and millions in property damage.
As part of efforts to quell the unrest, the City of Denver imposed a curfew. But a lawsuit representing BLM activists alleged that it was only enforced against protesters and not people out at night for unrelated purposes, something the City Attorney’s Office denies but the plaintiffs claim is backed up by law enforcement text messages.
CBS Colorado reported that the City Council
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