Brittney Gilliam's Family Reaches A Settlement
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
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Summary
Brittney Gilliam agreed to a $1.9 million settlement more than three years after police officers in Aurora, Colorado held her, her sister, her two nieces, and her six-year-old daughter at gunpoint. This comes on the heels of two new studies from the Journal of the American Medical Association that show the effect of police violence on Black communities.
Educators in Durham, North Carolina held another “Day of Protest" on Monday that forced Durham Public Schools to close seven schools. It was the second demonstration that caused closures in less than a week over a pay dispute with the school board. Meanwhile, the University of North Carolina in Greensboro is eliminating 20 programs from its roster, citing low enrollment.
And in headlines: Nevada’s Democratic and Republican presidential primaries are happening on Tuesday, King Charles III was diagnosed with cancer, and some scientists say that hurricanes are getting so intense that it may be time for a new rating.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, February 6th. I'm Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:03.7 | And I'm Travel Anderson and this is What a Day. |
| 0:06.7 | The podcast that is so happy to report that Megan The Stallions, |
| 0:10.7 | hiss is the number one song in the US. I know someone who is not |
| 0:14.8 | happy to hear that report. Listen we not even acknowledging her right now okay? |
| 0:19.6 | This is your sign to not give people free publicity. |
| 0:23.2 | Listen, she's about to go down two more flights of spiral case, okay? |
| 0:28.0 | On the show, Nevada's Democratic and Republican presidential primaries |
| 0:34.9 | are happening today. Plus King Charles the 3rd has been diagnosed with cancer. |
| 0:40.3 | But first, in August 2020 cops in Aurora, Colorado made national news when they held Brittany Gilliam her sister and nieces and her six-year-old daughter at gunpoint |
| 0:51.0 | The police approached the two women and three young girls in their |
| 0:54.1 | car and forced them to lay on the ground including the six-year-old and now three and a |
| 0:59.3 | half years later the Aurora police have finally settled with Brittany and her |
| 1:02.3 | family for 1.9 million dollars. |
| 1:04.8 | Oh my god 1.9 million dollars that's a lot of money. |
| 1:09.0 | Josie can you remind us of the background here? What happened happened it is a lot of money and maybe |
| 1:14.9 | somehow not enough in some ways Brittany had taken her sister her six-year-old |
| 1:21.0 | daughter and two of her nieces on a quote Sunday fun day to get their |
| 1:24.4 | nails done in Aurora and they were sitting in the car when five cops |
| 1:28.8 | approached their car with their guns out after mistakenly identifying the car as stolen. |
| 1:35.0 | So they forced them all out of the car and onto the ground and after one of the officers hesitated to handcuff the children, another officer told her to handcuff some of them. |
| 1:46.2 | Wow. |
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