New York City to Pay Settlement for ‘Kettling’ Black Lives Matter Rioters

New York City and the New York Police Department (NYPD) have agreed to a settlement that will pay millions to a group of Black Lives Matter rioters who were arrested or detained during a series of riots in June of 2020. As ABC News reports, the settlement claims that the over 300 rioters in question were detained through a police tactic known as “kettling,” where police create a large formation for the purpose of encircling and then corralling a group of violent rioters in order to contain the violence. Despite...