""The class certification decision is one step toward finally getting justice for these young people," said Rachel Lederman, an attorney with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, which is representing five teenagers arrested that day."
""SFPD engaged in an outrageous round-up and mass arrest of children and youth," she said."
""They kettled them between police lines and arrested them unlawfully, without a reasonable basis to believe that they had committed crimes.""
A federal judge certified a class for the 113 adults and children arrested at the 2023 Dolores Park hill bomb, allowing them to share counsel and permit other arrestees to join. Class status increases the potential combined recovery and can enlarge any settlement or jury award. Because officers were city employees that night, any judgment would be paid from the city's general fund, adding to $143,000 in police overtime already spent. The hill bomb is an informal, dangerous skateboarding event that has produced serious injuries, a coma, a death, and a stabbing in prior years.
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