A doula and a former Peace Corps worker are among the 300 who will receive $21,500 each for being wrongly brutalized by police during a 2020 protest in The Bronx.
Samira Sierra, 31, and Amali Sierra, 25, both of The Bronx, are among the five listed plaintiffs who won a lawsuit against the New York Police Department after accusing them of surrounding them on 136th Street between 7pm and 7.30pm on June 4, 2020 during a Black Lives Matter protest.
Officers wielding batons swung at protesters and hit them with pepper spray, before restraining hundreds of the demonstrators with plastic zip ties for violating a citywide curfew, which was 8pm.
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