Miracle Boyd is one step closer to a $280,000 settlement with the city.
"I just really hope that CPD gets itself together and these alders continue to grant justice to all victims and survivors of police violence through the city of Chicago," Boyd said.
In July 2020, a protest of the Christopher Columbus statute turned violent in Grant Park.
The protest came during a wave of protests against police brutality and tributes to those many view as historic oppressors.
An 18-year-old activist at the time with the group Good Kids Madd City, Boyd was filming an arrest when an officer knocked her phone out of her hand, which hit her face and knocked out her tooth. Chicago police officers were hurt that day, too.
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The Civilian Office of Police Accountability found that the officer involved in the incident used excessive force and made false statements in his police report of the incident. COPA recommended that the officer be fired, but he resigned before any discipline could take place.
"Two-hundred-and-eighty-thousand dollars ain't enough to fix what was broken that day. It's just, it's not," said 20th Ward Ald. Jeanette Taylor.
On Monday, some members of finance committee debated the merit of such a settlement.
"These people were there to do nothing but wreak havoc, fight with police, tear down a statue, because they don't agree with the art that's been up for 90 years," said 38th Ward Ald. Nick Sposato.
Boyd testified during the meeting.
"To this day, I remember it like it was yesterday. For some reason, I can't get over the harm that was caused to me," Boyd said.
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The settlement passed 22 to 7.
"It wasn't her fault. The phone got knocked out and ended up knocking out her teeth. That was an error. She had to have medical and surely, she had to be treated for that," said 37th Ward Ald. Emma Mitts.
"This protest was anything but peaceful. The culmination of anarchists that set that up, that turned this violent, and frankly, other protesters that joined in," said 19th Ward Ald. Matt O'Shea.
"Police officers were hurt that day, but several citizens and young people like me were also attacked and brutalized that day as well, and we deserve justice just as they do," Boyd said.
The settlement is scheduled to go before the full city council on Wednesday.