A Cop Wrongly Handcuffed a Black Mom and Kids. Now He's Running for Sheriff.
Almost a year after Aurora, Colorado, police officers wrongly handcuffed a Black mother and members of her young family in a parking lot, one of the cops involved has thrown his hat into the race for county sheriff of a nearby town.
Last August, Officer Darian Dasko and four other cops from the Aurora Police Department stopped 29-year-old Brittany Gilliam in a strip mall parking lot, where she’d gone for a “Sunday Funday” after months of lockdown during the pandemic with her daughter, sister, and two young nieces—ages 17, 14, 12, and 6 at the time. The officers had mistakenly identified her car as a stolen vehicle.
The incident left Gilliam and the girls traumatized, and Dasko was briefly suspended for his role. Now, the eight-year law enforcement veteran has filed paperwork to run as a Republican for Las Animas County Sheriff in 2022, challenging the current sheriff, Democrat Derek Navarette.
“Anyone who has such poor judgement that they would pull a gun on a six year old girl lacks the judgement to be the county dog catcher, much less the county sheriff,” said Attorney David Lane, who’s representing Gilliam in a lawsuit against the department that names Dasko.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ekzb/polic-aurora-colorado-darian-dasko-handcuffed-brittany-gilliam-running-sheriff
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GQP? But of course. And Aurora must be a real sink, judging from what I've read about their PD recently.
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