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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Hamilton partially grants the police officers and city officials' motion for summary judgment in the protestors' suit alleging civil rights violations and injuries at protests of the death of George Floyd. Police officers' decision to shoot less-lethal munitions into a crowd could create unlawful-seizure claims for those struck, since firing their weapons toward the protesters was a "knowing and willful act that terminated [their] freedom of movement," regardless of the officers' intent to encourage protestors to disperse. Several protestors' claims are dismissed for reasons including inability to identify or incorrect identification of the officers who injured them and the officers' reasonable beliefs that the use of force was necessary to apprehend them. Five protestors have surviving claims.