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City spending on Plaza obelisk lawsuit nears half a million dollars

Jun. 11—The Santa Fe City Council has approved spending nearly half a million dollars on legal representation to fight a lawsuit demanding restoration of the toppled Plaza obelisk. The costs could continue to rise beyond the more than $454,000 approved so far for an outside law firm if the civil case — filed by Union […]

Jury finds man was wrongly arrested at obelisk protest, awards him $50K

Jun. 5—After hours of deliberation Wednesday and initial difficulty coming to a verdict, a jury decided Santa Fe police had wrongly arrested a man during an October 2020 protest over the Plaza obelisk and awarded him $50,000 in damages from the city. Jurors did not find in Dylan Wrobel’s favor, however, on another question: whether […]

Deputy chief grilled over timeline of obelisk protest response

Jun. 4—Santa Fe police Deputy Chief Matthew Champlin testified Tuesday a protest in October 2020 that ended with the destruction of the Plaza obelisk was “one of the biggest things in my career.” He was the commanding officer that day but wasn’t present on the Plaza when the crowd at an Indigenous Peoples Day rally […]

Santa Fe police chief takes stand in obelisk protester’s civil trial

Jun. 3—Santa Fe police chief Paul Joye said on the witness stand Monday he didn’t handle an investigation into two officers’ use of force against a protester in October 2020, so he couldn’t explain why the internal probe didn’t include interviews with either officer or the protester. “I would have handled it differently, but that […]

Wrobel takes stand in obelisk case

May 31—A man who is suing the city of Santa Fe over an alleged assault by city police officers during the demonstration that preceded activists’ takedown of the Plaza obelisk in 2020 took the stand on Friday. Dylan Wrobel said he had gone to the Plaza with friends intending to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day, but […]