The city of Sacramento will pay a $2.2 million settlement to a man after a police officer fired a projectile at his face while he was video recording a 2020 protest.
The settlement, which The Sacramento Bee received from a California Public Records Act request, will be paid to Daniel Garza. Garza was a legal observer, wearing a distinctive neon green hat that read, “National Lawyers Guild Legal Observer,” during a protest in Sacramento on May 30, 2020.
The demonstration, in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, was against police brutality…