The protesters allege they were spat on, struck with rocks and, in one instance, nearly hit by a truck, but that police failed to properly investigate the attacks as hate crimes.
South Pasadena will pay $500,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by Black Lives Matter protesters who alleged the Police Department failed to protect them against attacks by white supremacists during a series of protests in 2020.
“I am an African American woman who was the victim of multiple hate crimes, but SPPD treated me as less than human, particularly when they sided with my White attackers, leaving them free to attack me again and again,” James said inThe department’s failure to arrest or cite individuals accused of assaulting the protesters “emboldened their attackers and left them in grave danger,” according to the lawsuit.
“After months of complaints by Plaintiffs and community members, the City finally investigated them and found that over half the police force had violated SPPD’s Hate Crimes and other policies in their response to attacks on Plaintiffs and other BLM protesters,” Hoq wrote in the amended complaint in November 2022.
“While the City and its officers have been dismissed, this is an ongoing litigation with other parties, so we are not commenting at this time,” Megerdichian said in an email.
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