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Cops accuse family of stealing their own car, catch young children at gunpoint - no charges


 In his previous couple of words on this planet, an aspiring massage therapist from Aurora, Elijah McClain may be heard saying, “I’m an introvert. I’m just different. That’s all. I’m so sorry. I've got no gun. I don’t try this stuff. I don’t do any fighting. Why are you attacking me? I don’t even kill flies! I don’t eat meat! But I don’t judge people, I don’t judge those who do eat meat. Forgive me … I’m so sorry.”

He was innocent, successful, and a light-weight during this often dark world and Aurora police killed him for being different. Then, after they killed him, they went back to the scene of the crime and reenacted it for fun. this is often not some case of a foul apple. this is often systemic and sadistic and shortly after these atrocities, the department made the news another time — now for holding an innocent family at gunpoint and forcing all to the bottom due to their own incompetence.

Illustrating why law enforcement officials can depart with horrific crimes is that the indisputable fact that none of the officers within the incident below are going to be charged — despite blatant acts of terrorism against an innocent family — holding children, ages 6-17 at gunpoint and forcing them to the bottom.

Despite the District Attorney’s Office of the 18th Judicial District calling the incident “disturbing,” they decided the officer “acted lawfully.”

“What happened to the innocent occupants is unacceptable and preventable, but that alone is an insufficient basis to affix criminal culpability to the 2 officers involved within the initial contact,” Clinton McKinzie, the chief deputy prosecutor within the 18th Judicial District, wrote in an exceeding letter explaining the choice, the Denver Post reported.

Sadly, this could likely be the identical decision whether or not the cops had killed a baby.

As we reported at the time, Brittany Gilliam was parked in a very nail salon automobile parking space over the weekend and was betting on her phone to search out another one since this one was closed. As she scrolled down her phone, Gilliam and her family quickly found themselves surrounded by cops who ordered them out of the car at gunpoint.

Aurora cops accused Gilliam and every one of the youngsters within the car of stealing that car. But there had been no theft and it had been police negligence that led to young children being held at gunpoint and compelled to the bottom.

As CBS Denver reports, Aurora police say they conducted a high-risk stop thanks to a suspected stolen vehicle. Gilliam’s car had the identical registration number plate number, but the incorrect state, for the vehicle officers were trying to find. Gilliam says her 12-year-old sister and 17-year-old niece were handcuffed while lying on the asphalt of the automobile parking space. A 14-year-old niece and her 6-year-old daughter were also obeying police commands to get to the bottom.

“He proceeded to handcuff me and that I saw him handcuff the youngsters, so I started getting angry why are you handcuffing kids for,” Gilliam said.

The woman who filmed the encounter says she was shocked to work out the officers holding young children at gunpoint and forcing them to the bottom then begin handcuffing them.

“I actually didn’t know what I used to be watching after I first started seeing what was happening. I’d never seen a gun that closes,” said Jenni Wurtz who witnessed the incident and recorded it. “I went from seeing kids in a very car to seeing a gun pointed at the youngsters within the car. I called my husband and said ‘I don’t know what I’m staring at,’ and he said ‘Hang up and begin recording.’”

“They were screaming for his or her mom and again, this was all an enormous misunderstanding, so in their mind, they’re getting their nails done. it absolutely was all happening so fast and something about it absolutely was like, this is often not right. These kids don't have any idea what's happening,” Wurtz said.

“I’m livid. I’m angry,” said Gilliam. “Those kids don't seem to be OK. They’re never visiting be OK. That was a traumatic experience. Would your kids be OK after that? Having a gun pulled on them and laid on the bottom. Especially a 6-year-old.”

Naturally, police claimed they did everything by the book and it absolutely was a straightforward typo that led to their stellar officers traumatizing and terrorizing an innocent family.

It will be the taxpayers who are held liable now.

“When pale-skinned cops point guns at small melanin children, there aren't any consequences in America,” David Lane, a lawyer for Gilliam and also the girls told the AP.

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