Accountability
Denver to pay $500K to student shot by police during George Floyd demonstrations
The city of Denver agreed to pay $500,000 to a college student who, while protesting following the death of George Floyd, was shot in the eye by Denver police.
The compensation was unanimously approved by the Denver City Council on Monday without discussion. The decision made by the city council settled the lawsuit that was filed against the Denver Police Department in October 2020. All $500,000 will be made payable to the client trust account of Killmer, Lane & Newman, a civil rights firm.
“Rather than protecting and serving, Denver officers in these protests were a roving gang cosplaying as an occupying military force,” the lawsuit claimed. “as a result, peaceful protesters against police brutality suffered unprecedented brutality by Denver police officers.”
Student Michael Acker was shot in the eye by a 40mm baton round that was fired by police on May 28, 2020. The round broke through the glass on the gas mask Acker had been wearing, which shattered glass into his eye and eyelid.
As a result, the lawsuit notes, he required seven stitches on his forehead, two on his nose, and three on his upper eyelid, but luckily his eyesight ended up unharmed.
Police Chief Paul Pazen, Cpl. Daniel Felkins, and Sgt. David Abeyta were named in the lawsuit. Apparently, Pazen approved the use of force, Felkins fired the shot, and Abeyta was present after the round was fired and didn’t intervene.
Felkins claimed later he had not aimed at Acker’s eye, and he fired the shot at him because he thought Acker threw a rock at police, although Acker’s attorney denied that story.
The student along with hundreds of people were demonstrating along a Platte Street sidewalk near Confluence Park prior to the incident. The lawsuit alleges that Acker was helping a woman who had been shot with several pepper balls fired by police when he then got shot.
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Just think if people learned the facts related to George Floyd’s death – effectively a suicide – the destruction of communities by insurrectionist would not have occurred. Consider the actual facts which people have tried to cover up and ignore:
1: George Floyd was a convicted criminal on Parole/Probation.
2: The police could search George Floyd at any time due to his being Parole/Probation.
3: George Floyd was being questioned due to the use of counterfeit money.
4: George Floyd took a lethal dose of fentanyal (misspelled) to avoid having it found on him.
5: He was actively resisting the police forcing them to drag him out of the vehicle.
6: While on the ground he kept fighting the officers.
7: After he stopped fighting the officers they concentrated on the crowd.
8: Someone noticed George Floyd appeared to be dead.
Even in the scam trial of the officers the Medical examiner played down the fact that the amount of fentanyal in George Floyd system was lethal. George Floyd consumed so much of the drug that it burned his tongue.