A California jury awarded $3.75 million in damages to a man who was allegedly hit twice by hard-foam police projectiles during one of the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020.

In 2020, Asim Jamal Shakir Jr. was filming himself approaching black Los Angeles Police Department officers and encouraging them to join the protest. While recording a skirmish line at the downtown L.A. protest, Shakir recognized one of the officers as his uncle, Eric Anderson.

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