ST. PAUL, Minn. – Two Los Angeles Times journalists injured by Minnesota state patrol troopers during the George Floyd riots have settled a federal lawsuit against the state for $1.2 million.
Governor Tim Walz exempted media from a nighttime curfew, but officers advanced on a group displaying press credentials, backed them into a corner, and fired rubber bullets and pepper spray.
One of the LA Times reporters suffered a corneal abrasion and chemical burns on her eye and skin. the other was bloodied and bruised from being shot at least five times in the leg with projectiles and a tear gas canister.
The State Patrol in the settlement did not admit wrongdoing.
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