Denver paid out $39.5 million to resolve large claims, including lawsuits, against the city from 2017 to 2023, with more than a quarter stemming for the 2020 racial justice protests.
Jax Feldmann was 21 when, on May 30, 2020, he was walking home from a friend s house where he had been working on recipes and was shot in the face by Denver police, amid BLM protests.
The Denver City Council is poised to approve a $2.3 million eye after a police officer shot him in the face with a pepper ball during the George Floyd protests in 2020.