He Called 911 Because His Car Was Stuck. The Cops Killed Him.

[Jilly_in_VA]

Body-camera footage shows Colorado police shot and killed a young man who had called 911 for help after getting his car stuck on a dirt road, despite him never leaving his vehicle's driver seat.

Christian Glass, 22, was killed on June 1 by a Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office deputy during a mental health crisis, his parents said. He had called 911 after getting his SUV stuck and was hoping for assistance getting it pushed out. But over the course of the next hour, the responding officers threatened him, tased him, shot him with beanbags, and finally shot and killed him.

Glass’ family has retained lawyers to help fight for justice for their son. The lawyers, Siddhartha Rathod and Qusair Mohamedbhai, provided VICE News with several angles of the body-camera footage showing the shooting and a statement saying, “from beginning to end, the officers escalated and proactively initiated force.”

“There was no need to threaten him with force; to draw guns; to break his car window; to fire beanbag rounds from a close distance; to tase him; to shoot him dead,” the lawyers wrote. “From beginning to end, the officers on the scene acted unconscionably and inhumanely.”

The lawyers also provided VICE News with the 911 call Glass made for help, which he ended by apologizing to the dispatcher, saying, “You’re my light right now. I’m really scared. I’m sorry.” Glass told the dispatcher that he had two knives and a hammer in his vehicle—something he carried with him as he was an amateur geologist—but he was adamant he wasn’t dangerous.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzadj/christian-glass-shooting-clear-creek-county-colorado

White kid. This is the area where I used to vacation as a kid and teen.

[lark]

1. Never call the cops - they are not our friends. n.t,

[Joinfortmill]

2. We have a serious problem, with unfit police officers: Screen, Train, Pay them

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Unreformable. Abolish it all.

[Bettie]

4. Refusing to get out of the car out of fear

seems a reasonable response these days.

Once you are out of the car, you're a 'threat to their lives', but, if you're in the car, they are angry that you didn't comply, of course, if you comply, you probably end up dead anyway, if they are in a killing mood that day/night.

Now, I'll be watching for the people who talk about there only being a few 'bad apples', because from the article, it seems there were a bunch of cops there and none of them tried to deescalate the situation.

[Mariana]

5. That's the way it always happens.

All of the cops on the scene usually participate in the fun. Occasionally one or two stand by and watch and do nothing to protect the victim. And they all tell the same lies afterward about what happened.

[Bettie]

6. And yet, all we hear is that

cops are good and noble and 'protect us'...except they don't. Did they ever?

Did they ever tell the truth?

[Samrob]

7. And people decry anger and action against police? When and how will this end? nt

[fescuerescue]

8. I don't worry about car jackers and other criminals on the road

The biggest danger to any driver on the road isn't a car jacker, or other drivers.

Police, by a large margin are the biggest threat to any driver.


The world is now made up of law abiding people, unbadged criminals and badged criminals.

Badged criminals is where the real danger is.

[Samrob]

9. I really want to see and hear more about this on major networks and cable. Al Sharpton...take cue.

This is as horrible as any murder of black by law enforcement. We are all in this together. I want Al to speak about this as markedly as he would the unwarranted shooting and killing of any minority. This kid was in a crisis situation and called 911 for help. His life was as valuable as any other. This entire thing is so sickening. This kind of brutality and murder by police must stop!

[Emile]

10. Egads, where in hell do they find these cops?

[SoCalDavidS]

11. In America

Shithole country.

[Emile]

12. Probably at a CPAC conference.