… 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.”
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.