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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The city of Sacramento has paid a $3 million settlement to a woman who was blinded in one eye by a police officer’s rubber bullet during a protest against police brutality in 2020. It’s one of the largest settlements the city has paid in connection with an officer-inflicted injury or death in recent years. Nia Love, 33 of Natomas, was participating in a demonstration at a south Sacramento police station on May 29, 2020, following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. Although she heard no warning from police that the crowd needed to disperse, she felt apprehensio…

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