Cincinnati has offered money to 39 people shot at with beanbags by police during last April's protests and riots.

        The amounts vary from $1,000 to $8,000, the highest offered to two women who suffered the most serious injuries. The city set Friday as the deadline to accept or decline the offers.

        But now, lawyers for the city and plaintiffs are at odds over whether everyone has to accept the settlements for them to be valid for anyone. The city says everyone must; attorney Bob Newman says it shouldn't be all or nothing.

        “Several wanted to do it immediately,” said Mr. Newman, who represents all 39.

        One plaintiff, however, Louisville teacher Christine Jones, already has said $8,000 isn't enough to cover her $10,000 in medical bills plus other ongoing problems, Mr. Newman said. Ms. Jones' spleen was damaged when she was hit by a beanbag while standing on an Over-the-Rhine street corner April 14.

        Mary Ann Meredith also was offered $8,000. She got about 20 stitches in her head after being hit.

        Mr. Newman has asked U.S. District Judge Arthur Spiegel to enforce the settlement agreement so that each person can decide separately whether he or she wants to take the money.

        Assistant city solicitor Richard Ganulin could not be reached for comment late Wednesday on what prompted the offers. But in a March 5 court document, he wrote that Judge Spiegel had encouraged settlement discussions “for the overall good of the community.”

        In keeping with the judge's request, Mr. Ganulin wrote, the police department was willing to consider settlement terms that “make good business sense, irrespective of issues of liability.”

        Three other people hit with beanbags have a different lawyer, Ken Lawson. He said Wednesday that settlement negotiations with his clients are pending the resolution of the racial-profiling mediation case he's involved with.

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