A Black woman who was removed from her car at gunpoint with four underage family members by Aurora, Colorado, police officers last year has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and police officials. Police incorrectly believed Brittney Gilliam had stolen the vehicle...
Her attorney David Lane joined @AriMelber to discuss her case, asserting: "She was trying to show the police her registration and her license plate number matched the registration. The police wouldn't look at a piece of paper to determine that this was not a stolen car."
"These kids had been for weeks and months seeing on the news every night white police officers killing African Americans for no reason whatsoever. And these little kids get pulled out of a car at gunpoint." - attorney David Lane on the incident
"How any cop believes there is any justification for pointing a gun at a 6-year-old child, it's beyond me. This is a life changing event for these kids." - attorney David Lane
"With Black people... police confuse reasonable force options with the mandate to use force. Built into policing is a wide range of discretion... look at the extraordinary restraint that was shown by the police officers at the Capitol." - law enforcement analyst @BLACKALLIANCE1
"This stop was absolutely, totally avoidable and unnecessary and obviously traumatizing." @BLACKALLIANCE1
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