… Specifics of any plea deal were not divulged in court. District Court Judge Catherine Cheroutes continued the hearing to Nov. 2 to allow defense counsel an opportunity to discuss the potential plea bargain with their clients.
[Christian Glass] died June 11, as he was stranded in his car near Silver Plume. He had called 9-1-1 for help, saying he was trapped and his car was stuck.
Officers asked Glass to leave his car, but he refused in what turned into a long standoff that ended when officers broke the car window and used a Taser on Glass. Former Clear Creek County Deputy Buen shot Glass five times, killing him, according to an indictment.
Glass was not armed and there was no reason to believe he would have been a danger to any law enforcement personnel, to himself or to any member of the public, the indictment said.
“The decision to remove him from the vehicle directly lead to the death of Mr. Glass,” the indictment said.
Then-Sgt. Gould was in contact via cellphone with Buen during the standoff, the indictment said. It goes on to say during the cellphone conversation, Buen muted his body-worn camera audio. The conversation was not recorded.
A civil suit resulted in a $19-million settlement between Glass’ family and four agencies, including the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office. In a court-ordered apology as part of the settlement, former Sheriff Rick Albers blamed officers who “failed to meet expectations.”
How is it that there isn’t a riot when killing an unarmed, innocent person who asked for your help is labeled “Failing to meet expectations”???
Bitch, that is murder. Your expectations cannot seriously be as low as ‘don’t kill people’, and still fail at that with no consequences.
I usually hesitate to say it, sounds like an endorsement of vigilantism, and I’m still opposed, but…
You have to wonder how long people will be willing to complain at city council meetings, or email the mayor’s office, or picket on the sidewalk, when it all seems to lead to nothing.
I agree, and I’m a bit shocked that we haven’t had another Christopher Dorner pop up over constant police brutality. I have heard hysterical and maybe not true stories of cops being ambushed, where someone calls 911 and blasts whatever officer shows up.
Back in 2019 I started writing out of boredom amd maybe for therapy. I’m working on a novel that will probably never be finished, where someone’s wife and kid gets killed by one of these assholes, and how he ends up dealing with it afterwards, but im running into two problems. First, this poor sod is supposed to be the bad guy, and I’m having trouble writing him as the villian. Second, it’s getting difficult to write a fictional story about over-the-top violent and useless cops because actual cops keep doing over the top violent or useless things. I had to delete an entire chapter where several police got scared and refused to enter a school during a shooting, because that actually happened a year or so after I wrote it.
Your story doesn’t have to be so over the top that it’s not realistic. It can absolutely be based on things that happen in real life and even mirror some situations.
The “failed expectations” were doing a better job of covering it up.
Ultimately this is why the right to defend yourself against police needs to be codified in law above all else.
At this point, it is them or you, people need to understand that any encounter with police in the US is a high risk engagement.
You had one problem, now you have two… Or you are dead.
That’s a fucked up double-or-nothing. 😞
He called for help, why did the cops need to have him get out of the car?
I know the answer is “Respect my authority!”
I can sort of understand that they probably wanted to pat him down to ensure he didn’t have any weapons. But that’s a desire, not a need. If they are so afraid that they have to kill someone for not wanting to exit their car, they aren’t fit for duty.
I’ll reiterate something I said on a similar thread. Cops are dangerous and it’s best not to resist in any way, even if their wrong and you’re right.
Concur and agree. In a lot of the cases we talk about here, things would’ve gone better if everyone had obeyed every cop’s commands.
It’s all ugly and infuriating. Free people shouldn’t have to obey every damned fool cop’s every command, and the penalty for disobedience shouldn’t be death, but when a cop is present we’re really not free people
Very brief story: A cop pointed a gun at me once, and said to put my hands up. It pissed me off then and pisses me off now, but I put my hands up. That’s why I get to tell the story.
We’ve all seen countless videos of the cops opening fire on someone doing exactly what the cops are asking them to do.
Too bad some people do put their hands up and are shot anyway. Or shot for following other directions.
Telling people to just follow the police directions are glazing over the fact that the directions are often shouted and hard to understand, contradictory to themselves, and people get shot even when complying.
