The city of Denver is set to pay over a quarter million dollars to a woman who was pregnant in 2020 when police blasted her with pepper spray.
Brittany King and her boyfriend, Shaiitarrio Brown, were mistaken for protesters during the summer 2020 demonstrations while working as food delivery service people when officers assaulted them. King was 19 weeks pregnant at the time.
On Jan. 9, the Denver City Council approved a $325,000 settlement for Brown and King for the lawsuit filed in 2021. The couple sued the Denver Police Department for shooting pepper balls at their car, according to The Denver Post.
According to FOX 31, the complaint included photographic evidence of the couple’s injuries and alleged the officers “repeated shots to her stomach.”
In the lawsuit, their attorneys allege the DPD’s use of pepper balls was “extreme and uncontrolled,” violating the couple’s First Amendment rights during the protests.
Brown alleges in the lawsuit in…
Read the full article here
