AURORA, Colo — Civil claims against the city of Aurora and three of its police officers for actions during Denver’s 2020 George Floyd protests can move forward, a panel of federal appeals court judges decided this week.
According to the case, Zachary Packard was shot in the head by an Aurora officer with a lead pellet-filled bag on May 31, 2020, which knocked him unconscious and caused fractures to his skull and jaw, along with brain bleeding.
He was hit right after he kicked away a tear gas canister thrown by an officer that landed near Packard, according to the lawsuit, and Sgt. Patricio Serrant told officers under him to “go ahead and frickin’ hit ‘em” if protesters kicked canisters.
Officer David McNamee was under Serrant’s command and fired several rounds at the same time Packard was hit, but the parties dispute whether it was McNamee who shot him, the case says.
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