Could a Black Man Get Away w/Fatally Shooting a White Cop in the Back as He Fled? Colorado Springs Gives De’Von Bailey’s Family $3M and Reminds All Blacks: If You Possess a Gun, Cops Can Murder You

From [HERE] A settlement has been reached in a civil lawsuit against the City of Colorado Springs for a fatal police shooting in 2019.

On Tuesday the city agreed to pay $2.975 million to settle the lawsuit filed by the family of De’Von Bailey. On August 3, 2019, Colorado Springs Police Department Sergeant Alan Van’t Land and Officer Blake Evenson shot Mr. De’Von Bailey in the back as he ran away from them, killing him. The unwanted cops Van’t Land and Evenson were back on the streets within days of the shooting imposing their compulsory services on the public. [MORE]

The officers contacted Mr. Bailey after receiving a false report that Mr. Bailey had been involved in an armed robbery. They killed him before the Colorado Springs Police Department conducted even the most basic of investigations into the robbery claim—and when the department did investigate, it discovered that no robbery had occurred at all.

Mr. Bailey did not threaten any police officer or citizen in any way prior to Sergeant Van’t Land and Officer Evenson’s decision to shoot him. He simply ran away, fast. As the lawsuit indicates,

Nearly thirty-five years before Defendants Van’t Land and Evenson killed Mr. Bailey, the United States Supreme Court made clear:

The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable. It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect. Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1, 11 (1985).

Nevertheless, in November of 2019 white prosectors steered a a grand jury to clear Sgt. Alan Van’t Land and Officer Blake Evenson, finding that their actions were “objectively reasonable” and consistent with their use of force training and Colorado law in the shooting. [remember, the law applies to subjects but the law of the jungle applies to our governmental masters in their relations with subjects. FUNKTIONARY explains, “We are bound by the written law but those who wrote the law are bound by the law of the jungle. Makes you feel like a fool, doesn't it? Minority rule majority fooled? Surely, on earth as it is in heaven. Why would we ever allow "government" to assert the position that it is not bound by the same law that binds us? The answer is that we are fools sweet-talked by judges into believing that the "natural state of affairs" is to bind the people by law, and the "'government" by fiat. "Government" has replaced religion as the opiate of the masses using the Media as its subduing gasses (fumes of subterfuge). (See: CHAOS, Overrulers, Judicial System, Constitution, Law, Domestication, Justice, Economics, Civilization, Weitiko Disease & "Government")“]

On Tuesday Mayor John Suthers and the police department released a joint statement on the settlement.

“The settlement of the civil case was dictated by the desire of the city’s excess insurance carrier to resolve the matter and eliminate any risk of a jury trial in Denver,” Suthers said in the statement. “The City of Colorado Springs is self-insured up to $1M in liability for any incident. The City has excess insurance coverage for any liability in excess of $1M. The estimated cost of trying the case through appeal is $1M, so the City would be responsible for that amount whether the case was tried or settled.”

Both Suthers and the department, in the statement, noted that the officers in the lawsuit acted in accordance with the law and department policy. Police said Bailey was reaching for a firearm in the waistband of his shorts when he was shot. [MORE] yep and murderers also tell lies. According to the complaint:

Defendant Van’t Land ordered Mr. Bailey and Mr. Stoker to put their hands in the air. Both Mr. Bailey and Mr. Stoker immediately complied.

Defendant Evenson later told investigators that Mr. Bailey and Mr. Stoker were cooperative with Defendant Van’t Land and that the situation appeared to be calm; other witnesses described the interaction as a calm, civil conversation. Nonetheless, Defendant Van’t Land threateningly rested his hand on his gun as he continued to converse with Mr. Bailey and Mr. Stoker.

The officers then began to close in on Mr. Stoker and Mr. Bailey. Officer Gonzalez approached Mr. Stoker from the side, and Defendant Evenson approached Mr. Bailey from behind.

As Defendant Evenson approached Mr. Bailey, Mr. Bailey turned and sprinted up the street, directly away from the officers and Mr. Stoker.

Mr. Bailey was running away as fast as possible to escape from the officers.

Defendant Van’t Land immediately drew his weapon to shoot Mr. Bailey. Likewise, Defendant Evenson drew his weapon to shoot Mr. Bailey.

Defendant Van’t Land shouted three times in rapid succession: “Hands up, hands up, hands up!” He gave no other commands, and no warnings that he was going to shoot his gun at the back of the fleeing De’Von Bailey.

Defendant Van’t Land began issuing his first “hands up” command approximately one second after Mr. Bailey began running. Defendant Van’t Land issued all three “hands up” commands within the space of approximately two seconds.

Defendant Van’t Land did not wait to see if Mr. Bailey would obey his commands to put his hands up; he had already decided to shoot Mr. Bailey in the back. Before he had even finished saying the word “up” for the final time, Defendant Van’t Land fired his gun at Mr. Bailey.

Neither Defendant Van’t Land nor Defendant Evenson ever, at any point, warned Mr. Bailey that they would use deadly force if Mr. Bailey continued to run.

Immediately after Van’t Land began shooting at the fleeing Bailey, Defendant Evenson began firing his gun at Mr. Bailey’s back, as well.

Defendant Van’t Land and Defendant Evenson fired their guns a total of eight times over the course of less than two seconds. Defendant Van’t Land fired six times, while Defendant Evenson accounted for the remaining two shots.

Three bullets struck Mr. Bailey in the back as he was desperately trying to run away, and one additional bullet grazed his elbow. He collapsed in the street, bleeding profusely from his wounds.

Apparently, the other four shots the officers fired were wild, and missed Bailey entirely.

As Defendant Van’t Land and Defendant Evenson approached the fallen Mr. Bailey, they again ordered him to put his hands up. Given the last opportunity to comply with the command, Mr. Bailey summoned the energy to put his right hand in the air, even as he lay dying with three CSPD bullets lodged in his back. This signal of compliance would be Mr. Bailey’s final conscious act.

At that point, the officers searched Mr. Bailey and handcuffed him, and found a gun deep within the pockets of his shorts. The gun was so deep within his shorts that the officers were required to cut Mr. Bailey’s shorts to remove the gun because it was so difficult to retrieve out of his shorts pocket.

At no time did Mr. Bailey display (or even touch) the gun when in the presence of the officers. [MORE] He died shortly after arriving at the hospital.