Plaintiff Timothy Scott Campbell, who will receive $150,000, says he was shot in the thigh with a beanbag round while filming police on November 3.
He posted video of the incident on YouTube (the apparent shot comes around 30 seconds in):
Other “occupiers” will receive mixed amounts between $20,000 and $75,000.
“This is really a good decision by the city and the Police Department to take some responsibility for the fiasco of their ill-planned response to Occupy Oakland and to take responsibility by compensating some of the people who were the most seriously injured,” Rachel Lederman, an attorney who represented the plaintiffs, commented.
She did not, however, rule out more suits of a similar nature.
“We hope that we will no longer have to keep bringing these lawsuits, but it’s been a very long road with Oakland police, so it remains to be seen whether there will be compliance,” Lederman said.
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