A federal civil jury has awarded more than $1.3 million to a man who was injured by a police projectile at a George Floyd protest in the summer of 2020, concluding the first excessive force trial over the police aggression that garnered international scorn and changed the city’s protest response.

Denver and a city police officer are appealing a federal jury’s orders that they pay millions in damages to demonstrators injured by officers during the 2020 protests over the death of George Floyd. The city argued in an appeal filed Dec.