The city of Sacramento has paid a $500,000 settlement to a Black man who was injured by Sacramento police during a 2020 protest against police brutality.
Foucha Coner was 21 when he participated in a peaceful demonstration in front of the Capitol building on May 31, 2020, in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, according to the lawsuit, filed in 2020 in Sacramento Superior Court.
At about 10 p.m., officers aimed projectile guns at a group of peaceful protesters that included Coner and gave a single order to disperse, the lawsuit alleges. Coner did not fully understand the order or know where he should go…