By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 6, 2024
In December of 2020, Aurora, CO police officers held a Black woman and four children at gunpoint. “A video of the group lying on the ground went viral online shortly after the incident.” Three years after Brittney Gilliam filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and police officials, they have reached a $1.9 million settlement.
It’s a horrifying situation to fathom— “four Black girls