Korryn Gaines was a 23-year-old young woman who was shot by the police on August 1, 2016, during an hours-long stand-off in Baltimore County, Maryland. This incident happened after a traffic violation where Gaines allegedly didn't appear in court because, when she went into the station to get clarity about her court date, the police told her that the supervisor with the documents was unavailable.
While the officer who shot Gaines was not charged, in 2018, the family was awarded $38 million by an all-female jury. The jury stated that since the first shot was fired by the officer and not Gaines that his actions were not reasonable and thus violated their civil rights. However, there was an appeal filed which led to a February 2019 verdict by Judge Mickey J. Norman, who ruled that the officer’s actions were reasonable and reversed the prior decision.
Dormeus said that she wasn't aware of Gaines' murder until ten to fifteen minutes after and an officer simply told her,"She's gone." Dormeus stated that the officer who killed Gaines"saw her as a problem because during the trial all of the other officers said that she posed no threat to them...He even admitted he couldn't see her. He shot through a wall. [...] He said that he thought she was going fire on them because he couldn't see it.
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