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EXCESSIVE FORCE SETTLED FOR $212k - CSPD UPDATE
The City of Colorado Springs has settled in court and agreed to change police procedures, but still denies any wrongdoing in the case of Ryan Brown.

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The case stems from a March 2015 incident in which Officer David Nelson pulled over two brothers, Benjamin and Ryan Brown, who were driving near Austin Bluffs Parkway and Barnes Road.

According to the internal investigation file, which the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) tried to keep secret, the officers who Nelson called for backup thought his actions were over the top. "It's sort of a known thing at Stetson [Hills Police Substation] that he's super excitable and he escalates very rapidly," Officer Alison Detwiler, a veteran on the force, told investigators, noting that at times Nelson "sort of spins out of control."


Charged with obstructing justice, Ryan filed an excessive force complaint. The charges against Ryan were dropped, but the department determined Nelson's actions were "justified, legal and proper." Ryan then contacted the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado (ACLU) which sued.

At the time, ACLU legal director Mark Silverstein said, "This is a clear-cut case of racial profiling." And indeed it wasn't isolated — the complaint claimed that African-American males are stopped by the Colorado Springs Police Department as much as 161 percent more often than would be proportional to their number in the general population.

On April 20, CSPD announced a $212,000 settlement. In a release, CSPD stated, "Although CSPD sincerely believes the claims of racial profiling were unfounded, the decision to settle was based on comparative analysis of the high cost of legal proceedings and the risk of financial liability in the event the city did not prevail in every
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