“Didn’t have to be that way”: Officers involved in shooting of Christian Glass needlessly rushed, failed to de-escalate, experts say

Officers and deputies in Clear Creek County failed to de-escalate an interaction with a 22-year-old Boulder man who called for help after crashing his car and they needlessly rushed the incident that ended with a deputy fatally shooting the driver as he sat in his car, experts in mental health and police tactics told The Denver Post.

Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office policy, obtained by The Denver Post through a records request, specifically outlines how deputies should work with people with mental illness. Clear Creek County deputies and others on scene failed to uphold many of those best practices, mental health and police tactics experts told The Post.Vincent Atchity

She noted that they did not ask for his license and insurance, as officers normally do when responding to a crash and did not offer to call for a tow truck. “The officers’ immediate response of yelling at him and giving orders instead of speaking calmly and asking him to comply — that’s what kept Christian from complying,” she said.

The officers on scene failed to take Glass’ fear seriously, failed to try to understand why he was afraid and failed to consider what they could do about it.Instead, the officers kept trying the same thing over and over again and grew frustrated when nothing changed, he said. The officers’ attempts to bribe Glass to come out of the car with soda and beef jerky also represented a lack of understanding of mental illness, he said.

The video the Media released to the public - should be seen by everyone! This young man was killed for no reason and the officer's could have simply just walked away. In the police video the young man made a heart symbol with his hands. This case is heartbreaking.

'Rushed'? They put up with over an hour of this nonsense, did they not?

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