{"id":1707,"date":"2023-10-10T14:09:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T21:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2023-10-10T14:09:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T21:09:30","slug":"protest-payout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"Protest Payout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Denver keeps spending the big bucks, to settle numerous lawsuits over how police responded to the George Floyd protests 3 years ago\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Denver Still Paying Protestors\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:29)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-000585a6-689a-4f83-8800-7a4eab2e9d95\" href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/231010-Denver-Still-Paying-Protestors-vxr.mp3\">231010-Denver-Still-Paying-Protestors-vxr<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/231010-Denver-Still-Paying-Protestors-vxr.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-000585a6-689a-4f83-8800-7a4eab2e9d95\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday, city council agreed to pay another 1 \u00bd million dollars to dozens of former demonstrators.&nbsp; Two more suits were settled, involving more than 35 protestors.&nbsp; Some say they were peacefully demonstrating, when officers used projectiles, pepper spray, and tear gas against them.&nbsp; Others say they unjustly spent multiple days in jail.&nbsp; The mile-high city has already paid out more than 9 million dollars in protest settlements.&nbsp; A jury has also ordered the city to pay 14 million, after an excessive-force suit went to trial.&nbsp; Denver is appealing that ruling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver keeps spending the big bucks, to settle numerous lawsuits over how police responded to the George Floyd protests 3 years ago\u2026 (Denver Still Paying Protestors\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:29) Monday, city council agreed to pay another 1 \u00bd million dollars to dozens of former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}