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Family of pregnant woman fatally shot by Colorado police sue

Destinee Thompson, who was shot and killed by police in a Denver suburb in 2021.
Destinee Thompson, who was shot and killed by police in a Denver suburb in 2021. Photograph: Carmela Delgado/AP

Destinee Thompson was supposed to be on her way to lunch with her stepmother in August 2021 when Colorado police, mistaking her for a robbery suspect, fatally shot the pregnant mother as she fled in her minivan.

Frustrated by the district attorney’s decision last year not to charge the officers, Thompson’s family filed a wrongful death and excessive force lawsuit on Tuesday against five officers from the Denver suburb of Arvada who were present when she was killed.

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