{"id":3559,"date":"2024-02-06T14:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/city-agrees-1-9m-settlement-with-black-family-held-at-gunpoint-by-police\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T14:02:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:02:01","slug":"city-agrees-1-9m-settlement-with-black-family-held-at-gunpoint-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/city-agrees-1-9m-settlement-with-black-family-held-at-gunpoint-by-police\/","title":{"rendered":"City agrees $1.9m settlement with Black family held at gunpoint by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver suburb of Aurora agrees to pay Brittney Gilliam and family after police mistakenly believed she was driving stolen car in 2020<\/p>\n<p>The four Black girls lay facedown in a parking lot, crying \u201cno\u201d and \u201cmommy\u201d as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/aug\/04\/colorado-police-draw-guns-mistaken-stolen-car-stop-video-black-woman-brittney-gilliam\">police<\/a> officer who had pointed her gun at them then bent down to handcuff two of their wrists. The youngest wore a pink tiara as she held on to her teenage cousin\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n<p>The six-year-old Lovely watched as her mother, Brittney Gilliam, was led to a patrol car in handcuffs after she shouted in frustration at the police, who mistakenly believed the car Gilliam was driving was stolen.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/feb\/06\/aurora-settlement-black-family-held-gunpoint-police\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver suburb of Aurora agrees to pay Brittney Gilliam and family after police mistakenly believed she was driving stolen car in 2020 The four Black girls lay facedown in a parking lot, crying \u201cno\u201d and \u201cmommy\u201d as a police officer who had pointed her gun at them then bent down to handcuff two of their &#8230; <a title=\"City agrees $1.9m settlement with Black family held at gunpoint by police\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/city-agrees-1-9m-settlement-with-black-family-held-at-gunpoint-by-police\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about City agrees $1.9m settlement with Black family held at gunpoint by police\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}