Skull, jaw, and disc fractures. A brain bleed. Bruising on the back, limbs, and face. Burning in and on the eyes, throat, and face. Lost vision.

Those are some of the injuries listed in the complaint filed by protestors who sued the City of Denver claiming officers used excessive force responding to demonstrations in the summer of 2020, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Last week, after a three week trial, a federal jury in Denver sided with protestors represented by our Litigators of the Week, Tim Macdonald and Matthew Douglas of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer and Elizabeth Wang of Loevy & Loevy. The jury found the city and police committed a variety of First and Fourth Amendment violations and awarded a total $14 million to the 12 plaintiffs who went to trial.