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The Greens are friends of mine.
They eventually prevailed in their actions.


United States Court of Appeals,Tenth Circuit.
GREEN v. POST
No. 08-1122.

Willis Green was killed when a police vehicle driven by Deputy Post struck Green's 1995 Kia, as Green was attempting to turn left at the intersection of U.S. 50 and Morris Avenue in Pueblo, Colorado.   Deputy Post was traveling straight through the intersection at a high rate of speed and without his vehicle's siren or lights on, as he was attempting to catch up to a vehicle suspected of driving away from a gas station without paying for approximately $30.00 worth of gas.

Green was ejected from his car and died from the injuries he received.

Deputy Post testified in his deposition that he was not responding to an emergency situation and he was not actually in pursuit of the suspect vehicle.   Rather, he was simply trying to catch up to the suspected violator of the law, to verify that it was the vehicle involved in the theft of the gas.   As indicated, Deputy Post did not have his emergency lights on at the time of the collision, nor was his siren activated.