Police officers arrived at the scene when a black circle of relatives of five in a game application vehicle (SUV) was arrested, handcuffed and held at gunpoint on the floor of a mall parking lot on Sunday for allegedly being stolen from an outdoor motorcycle. state.
“I need my mother!” The youngest of the children, 6 years old and dressed in a pink crown, screams as police stop the family. Another frightened child begged several times for his sister.
– Joshua Rodriguez (@Joshuajered) August 3, 2020
“There’s no excuse for you not to have treated it any other way, ” said Brittney Gilliam. Gilliam told KUSA-TV, a local NBC associate, that he would take his daughters and nieces for a day to the spa.
“You may even have told them, ‘Stand back, let me ask your mother or aunt some questions so we can explain the situation.’ There were other tactics to address the problem,” he said.
Several videos of the incident were viewed millions of times at the time of writing, which led the Aurora Police Department to its widely criticized behavior.
– Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) August 4, 2020
“Wow, the total circle of relatives of children,” says a guy who films the stomach-aching episode. “They hit the kids out of the car. Sensational. They took a total circle of relatives from them. It’s horrible. What the hell’s going on? They have a little woguy on the floor. This is absolutely absurd.”
Jennifer Wurtz filmed the maximum video of the incident.
“Why are you hitting those young men who look at the concrete floor?” She asks. “It’s hot! In front of all of us? Yelling at them. They tell you they’re hurt.
Police eventually responded, telling him to step back because he is concerned about an investigation, according to The Denver Post.
This investigation went wrong or suspicious from the beginning.
Police say they used the SUV for a stolen motorcycle because the Colorado-plated minibus vehicle had the same license plate number as the motorcycle allegedly stolen with Montana plates. First of all, it is not known why the police controlled the family’s dishes.
The Aurora Police Department recently gained notoriety for his habit after Elijah McClain’s death in custody. The 23-year-old black massage therapist said her sister, walking and listening to music with her headphones in the moments leading up to the fatal encounter with police on August 19, 2019.
Months later, Aurora police officers took a selfie at the site of McClain Memorial, one of the officials of the time who mimicked the strangulation used in McClain.
“It’s like they don’t care,” Brittney Gilliam’s 14-year-old niece Teriana Thomas said of the department, according to KUSA. “Who am I going to call when my life is in danger?”
Since then, police control has described the incident as “traumatizing.”
“First we would like to apologize to the circle of relatives involved in the traumatic incident that involved a policeman in his vehicle yesterday.” Acting Police Chief Vanessa Wilson said in a statement. “We have taught our officials that when they touch a car suspected of theft, they have to do what is called high-risk prevention. It’s about cutting off their weapons and ordering all occupants to get out of the car and lie on the ground.
“But we will have to allow our officials to exercise discretion and depart from this procedure when other scenarios arise,” the police chief continued. “I have already guided my team to new practices and training. I called the circle of relatives to apologize and offer them all the assistance we can give them, especially for young people who may have been traumatized by yesterday’s events. I contacted our victim advocates so that we can offer appropriate treatment for the age that the city will cover.”
Later, the branch replaced its story a little, suggesting that the closure originally occurred because Gilliam’s vehicle reported it was stolen earlier this year.
“The confusion may be due, in part, to the fact that the stopped car was reported stolen earlier in the year,” said one. “After learning of the error, officials promptly passed the handcuffs to everyone involved, explained what happened, and apologized.
But according to Gilliam’s lawyer, Aurora’s own police returned Gilliam’s vehicle after it was stolen in February.
[Jennifer Wurtz/ Twitter/ Screenshot]
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