Salem to pay $25,000 settlement in lawsuit over excessive force at 2021 protest

The city of Salem will pay $25,000 in a settlement with a Salem man who alleged in a lawsuit that police shot him with crowd control munitions before tackling and arresting him during a 2021 protest outside Planned Parenthood near the North Lancaster neighborhood.

The city reached the settlement with Clifford P. Eiffler-Rodriguez, 37, on May 25, about three months after he sued the city and three of its police officersin Eugene U.S. District…