City agrees $1.9m settlement with Black family held at gunpoint by police

Denver suburb of Aurora agrees to pay Brittney Gilliam and family after police mistakenly believed she was driving stolen car in 2020

The four Black girls lay facedown in a parking lot, crying no" and mommy" as a police officer who had pointed her gun at them then bent down to handcuff two of their wrists. The youngest wore a pink tiara as she held on to her teenage cousin's hand.

The six-year-old Lovely watched as her mother, Brittney Gilliam, was led to a patrol car in handcuffs after she shouted in frustration at the police, who mistakenly believed the car Gilliam was driving was stolen.