Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged]

A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy was convicted Thursday in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in distress who called 911 for help after his car got stuck in a small mountain community.

Jurors found Andrew Buen guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the June 2022 death of Christian Glass, whose death drew national attention and led to changes in how officers are trained to respond to people in mental health crises under a $19m settlement with his family.

Murder convictions of police officers for actions taken while they were on duty are rare and have happened only nine times in the United Sates over the past two decades, according to the criminal justice expert Philip Stinson at Bowling Green State University.


Prosecutors alleged that Buen needlessly escalated a standoff with Glass, who showed signs of a mental health crisis and refused orders to get out of his SUV near the small town of Silver Plume.

The defense argued that Buen was legally justified in shooting Glass, who had a knife, to protect a fellow officer.…..

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ooting-christian-glass?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other