From what we know now, the police shot and killed a younger boy. In June, a 22-year-old man named Christian Glass reportedly called 911 after getting stuck on a gravel road in Clear Creek County.
Instead, the boy and several different law enforcement agencies got into a long, tense, confusing, and chaotic fight that ended with the boy being killed while he was locked in his own car. The lawyers for his family gave video evidence. The issue has become a topic of conversation among the general public. Check out the article below for more information.
The Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release that the boy was shot and killed on June 11, 2022. They said that Glass was rude and argumentative, and that he even tried to stab an officer. Officers broke a car window to catch him so the situation wouldn’t get worse and so they could stay safe. The body camera footage of the incident has been made public, and it shows the officers coming up to the 22-year-old bot.
Christian allegedly refused to get out of his car when the police asked him to. It went on for about an hour, with Glass saying over and over that he was scared and wouldn’t get out of the car. Later, Glass pulled out a knife, which made the police shoot bean bag rounds and tase Glass before shooting into the car. People want Christian Glass to get what’s coming to him because the story has spread like wildfire everywhere.
His parents, Simon and Sally Glass, have come forward and asked that the police be held responsible for their son’s death. Siddhartha Rathod, the lawyer for the parents, said that Christian was in trouble and had even called 911 for help. However, the police broke through Christian’s window and shot him six times with bean bag rounds. Heidi McCollum, the district attorney for the Fifth Judicial District, said in a press release on September 13 that her office and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation are looking into the matter.
She also said that indictments might or might not need to be filed after her office releases a report on the incident or sends it to a grand jury. According to the post-mortem reports, the police shot Christian five times in the chest, giving him a total of six wounds. The cops who killed Glass’s son have been called bullies by his family.
In June, Christian Glass called 911 for help when he got stuck on a dirt road in Clear Creek County.
Instead, the 22-year-old was killed while locked in his own car after a long, tense, confusing, and chaotic fight with Clear Creek deputies and a few other agencies. The lawyers for his family gave out video footage.
Sally and Simon Glass, Glass’s parents, talked to reporters on Tuesday to try to clear their son’s name and say that they plan to sue the responding agencies responsible for their son’s death in the future.
In a release, Glass’s family’s lawyers, Siddhartha Rathod and Qusair Mohamedbhai, said, “From the beginning to the end, the officers escalated and started using force on their own.” “Yet, these officers, including the one who killed Christian, are still in uniform and haven’t been punished for what they did. Our country can’t keep putting up with this much violence from law enforcement. Just calling 911 to ask for help can’t be a death sentence.”
On June 11, 2022, late at night, Glass’s car got stuck on a country road near Silver Plume
When he called 911 for help from his cell phone, he sounded crazy, paranoid, and very scared. He told the operator that his car was stuck in a bush “trap” and that he didn’t like the town he was in.
“I’m in a 2007 Honda Pilot. “I can’t take care of myself,” he told the operator. “Are you sending someone? You found out where I was? My car is hung up on a bush… I love you. Right now, you’re my light. I’m very worried. I apologize.”
Glass lived in Boulder County and was a hobbyist geologist. He had just come back from a trip to Utah and had some knives and a hammer in his car.
Glass’s parents are from the UK and New Zealand. He told the dispatcher that he had things in the car that could be seen as weapons, and he offered to throw them out when the police arrived.
“I have two knives, a hammer, and a rubber mallet,” he told the emergency dispatcher with a slight accent. “I’m not dangerous. I will keep my hands out in the open. I know this is a questionable situation.”
The dispatcher told the deputies what had happened
The dispatcher told the deputies, “I’m not having any luck getting rid of this party, and he’s not making much sense.”
When they got to the scene, Glass again offered to throw the tools and knives out the window.
The deputies told him that they didn’t want him to throw the weapons out of the car, so they told him to get out of the car.
Glass told the police that he didn’t feel safe getting out of the car. He did this by putting his hands up. He took the keys out of the ignition and put them on the dashboard. He told them he was scared and wanted to stay in the car. No one thought he had done anything wrong.
Glass told the officers, “Please push me out or drag me out, and I’ll follow you to a police station.” “I’m so scared.”
The deputy, whose name the authorities haven’t said, yelled at Glass
“Get out of the car right now. He said, “Get out of the car.” “That is a legal request. Get out of the car right now, or you’ll be taken out of it.”
Glass said, “I’m so afraid… You’re not making yourself clear to me. I don’t know why I have to go outside.”
In less than three minutes, the deputy yelled again, “Get out of the car!” and threatened to break the window.
On the body camera footage, Glass can be seen putting his hands together in a prayer position and saying, “Lord, please don’t let them break the window!”
Six minutes after being called, the deputy sees Glass’s knife and pulls his gun. Glass throws the knife over to the other side of the car and puts his hands up.
Glass didn’t seem like he was a threat to himself or to anyone else. He told the police that he “smoked,” but they didn’t ask him anything else.
Glass stayed in the car with the windows rolled up during the whole argument. He can be seen showing the officers a heart with his hands.
More police officers showed up. At one point, police from Clear Creek, Idaho Springs, Georgetown, the Colorado State Patrol, and the Colorado Division of Gaming were all there.
A woman officer told him, “Come talk to us.” Glass made a heart with his hands in the car and then blew her kisses. “Same to you,” she said, “but come out and talk to us.”
This officer walked up to two other female officers and joked that they needed to send “cute girls” to talk to him.
At one point, a boss at the Colorado State Patrol radioed that Glass hadn’t done anything wrong.
“Can you find out what Clear Creek’s plan is? “There’s no reason to contact him if he hasn’t done anything wrong and isn’t suicidal, planning to kill someone, or a big risk,” a CSP sergeant says over the radio. “Is there something we don’t know about your health?”
But the growing number of police officers on the scene stayed there for almost an hour and a half, trying to get Glass out of the car. At one point, a deputy got on the car’s hood and shined a flashlight in Glass’s eyes. He stayed there for a while and then pulled out his gun and pointed it at Glass from inside the car.
Thanks to the lawyers for the Glass family
In this still taken from a body-worn police camera on June 11, 2022 in Clear Creek County, Colorado, one officer is holding a fired stun gun, while another officer stands on the hood of 22-year-old Christian Glass’s car and points a gun at him. After Glass crashed his car outside of Silver Plume, he called 911 for help. After arguing with deputies for more than an hour, one of them shot and killed Glass while he was locked in his car. Glass was holding a small knife.
As they tried to break the car window, a deputy said, “We’re poppin’.” Glass took the knife in his hand.
“It looks like he’s holding a knife!” said another officer. “Watch the crossfire, watch the crossfire.”
The officers took a step back and pulled out their guns. In the end, they broke the window, and glass went everywhere. Glass held on to the little knife.
As officers got closer and started shooting bean bags into the car, Glass’s head moved from left to right.
Officers yelled “impact, impact, impact” as the bean bags went in and seemed to break more car windows. Glass got more upset and moved his eyes and head back and forth. He started to yell.
Another deputy tells someone to shock Glass with a Taser
The first officer to arrive at the scene hit Glass with his yellow Taser gun. He began to cry out again. At this point, officers with their lights on were on all sides of him. After a few seconds, they yell at him again to drop the knife.
One deputy shot him with several rounds, killing him
“The deputies were able to break the car windows and get one knife out of the car. The suspect got a rock and a second knife and armed himself again,” it said. “The deputies used less deadly bean bags and a Taser, but neither worked. The suspect tried to stab an officer in the end, and the officer shot him. On the spot, the suspect was pronounced dead.”
Monday, Clear Creek County Sheriff Rick Albers said he had nothing else to say about what happened.
Heidi McCollum, the district attorney for Clear Creek County, didn’t answer when asked more than once if she was looking into the responding officers for crimes of excessive force or if she was going to send the investigation to a grand jury. The office of Attorney General Phil Weiser had nothing to say about what happened.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is in charge of looking into police shootings to see if there is evidence of federal crimes against civil rights. The U.S. Attorney’s Office wouldn’t say if they were looking into Glass’s death or not.
The parents of Glass are going to talk on Tuesday at the Denver office of their lawyer. Glass loved tennis and played it often. He was also a trained chef and taught himself how to draw and paint.
“These officers killed a gentle, peaceful soul just because it was ‘time to move the night on,’” Rathod and Mohamedbhai said, citing a body camera video of the Georgetown Police Chief telling Glass that they didn’t want to stay there anymore. “From the beginning to the end, the officers on the scene did things that were wrong and cruel. The Glass family agrees with the Colorado State Patrol’s assessment that Christian had not done anything wrong, did not pose a threat to himself or others, and there was no reason to keep in touch with him.
Law enforcement agencies in Denver and Jefferson County, which is next to Clear Creek County, have co-responder programs to help them help people who might be having a mental health crisis.
Since January 2022, co-responders with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office have helped with 525 calls. A spokeswoman for the agency said that deputies on the Crisis Intervention Team get 40 hours of mental health training every year.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office’s Karlyn L. Tilley said, “A co-responder is a mental health professional who can help deputies calm down a situation, help stabilize a crisis through clinical and needs assessments, and help link people to the right mental health, drug abuse, and other services after a crisis.” “They help people in Jefferson County who are having a mental health crisis or other mental health problems by giving them follow-up support and field responses or interventions.”
In Denver, new police officers have to go through eight hours of training on how to combine communications and tactics, eight hours of training on how to deal with active bystanders, and eight hours of training on how to respond to a risk assessment.
All officers must finish both the 40-hour Crisis Intervention Team mental health training and the verbal de-escalation skills training within 18 months of being hired.
This year, Stanford University did a study that showed that Denver’s co-responder program, called STAR, cut down on crime.
Instead of sending police to some non-violent 911 calls, it sends mental health professionals.