Denver has moved to appeal a nearly $14 million judgment against the city, after jurors found police officers violated a group of plaintiffs’ constitutional rights in their response to 2020 protests.
The case is one of several filed in Colorado’s federal trial court over the use of projectiles and chemical weapons against demonstrations in downtown Denver. Protesters assembled in Denver and other cities after bystander video captured a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck, causing his death.
A 2022 jury trial before U.S. District Court Senior Judge R. Brooke Jackson resulted in a favorable verdict for the injured plaintiffs . The parties continued to address other issues after trial and Jackson entered a final judgment in the case in August…