Brickbat: You Can Never Be Too Careful

Officials in Aurora, Colorado, have agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Brittney Gilliam, her daughter, her sister, and her two nieces. In 2020, the five were pulled out of their SUV at gunpoint and handcuffed. Police said their computer system showed the SUV was stolen, but in fact, it was a motorcycle with the same license plate number from Montana that had been stolen. Local prosecutors called the incident "unacceptable and preventable" but declined to charge the officers.

Comments

[Adans smith]

At first I was thinking 1.9 was too much for a false arrest with no injury. Then I read the article and saw the race card come out.

[SQRLSY One]

"Family of Black girls handcuffed by Colorado police, held at gunpoint reach $1.9 million settlement" says the title.

Well, had it been a family of rich and powerful whites (like Trump, Bezos, Elon Musk, etc.), do you REALLY think that the same thing would have happened? Or if it had been a local political big-wig?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Local prosecutors called the incident "unacceptable and preventable" but declined to charge the officers.

Sounds like it was acceptable.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

I hope they were at least fired for being too stupid to tell a motorcycle from an SUV.

[Ajsloss]

In 2020

No shit they got treated like that. FIVE people in one car! How many grandmas were they trying to kill?

[TJJ2000]

Sounds like a case of making a living off of Stealing pots of gold.
Charge the officers not the taxpayers. Good grief the system has gotten so corrupted by criminal minds.

[Dillinger]

five black people assembled in one vehicle in Aurora, Colorado is immediately suspicious, no?

[Think It Through]

I'd do it for 1.9m.

[LIBertrans]

Qualified impunity and legalized asset-forfeiture armed robbery are what keep looter laws on the books. Sure was nice when we had a Libertarian Party and hope for the future...

[markm23]

It seems to me that, although the cops on the scene are at fault for not verifying what the computer told them, the far worse error was when the computer matched CO and WY license plate numbers.