Demonstrators arrested in St. Louis in 2017 during protests against the acquittal of a white police officer who was on trial for shooting a black man are getting their piece of a $4.9 million settlement with the city.

The payouts range from $28,000 to more than $150,000, AP News reported.

Some of the plaintiffs received their checks at the law offices of Khazaeli Wyrsch on Friday, as reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Dekita Roberts came to claim her check, telling the Post-Dispatch she intends to invest part of the money and save some for her children.

A 36-year-old man named Ali Bey said he planned to start a construction company with his share. “This takes five steps out of the way for me,” Bey said, according to the Post-Dispatch. “As far as getting a truck and tools, I can begin doing that by the end of the day. I already got some of the clientele.”

St. Louis agreed to the class action settlement that includes 84 people who accused the city of violating their rights when they were arrested en masse while protesting the not guilty verdict of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley for the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, per AP.

Smith was shot by Stockley after he led police on a high-speed car chase while fleeing from an alleged drug deal, as reported by BBC News.

Protesters claimed that police surrounded more than 120 people and employed excessive force as they made the arrests, per AP.

“I’m having a wide variety of emotions,” said Demetrius Thomas, 42, per the Post-Dispatch. “I’m glad it’s over, I’m glad I’m getting some money, but I also wonder if this is going to change anything.”

Javad Khazaeli, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, felt that the process to get to a settlement had taken too long, per the Post-Dispatch.

“Other cities that have done this have gone through the whole process and trials in a year and a half,” Khazaeli said.

The settlement was reportedly one of the largest to result from a protest in the United States, according to the Post-Dispatch. Recently, Minneapolis agreed to pay $700,000 to 12 people who claimed to have been unlawfully attacked by law enforcement during a protest.