A Colorado city has agreed to pay $2.9 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of a 19-year-old Black man who was fatally shot in the back by police in 2019, both sides in the litigation said on Tuesday.
Highlights
- De’Von Bailey was shot four times after he bolted from two Colorado Springs policemen who were questioning him about an armed robbery in August 2019.
- Police said they retrieved a handgun from Bailey after he was shot.
- Bailey’s parents sued the city police department in federal court, claiming that officers “racially profiled Mr.
- Bailey and assumed at least partly because of his race that he presented an enhanced threat to their safety” The police department said the settlement was not an “admission or indication of wrongdoing” by its officers.
- An autopsy revealed Bailey died from “massive blood loss” after bullets perforated his heart, left lung and other organs.