Loree McCormick-Rice and her daughter, Cassidy Rice, have reached a settlement with the city of Aurora, and the lawsuit they filed over a dispute they had with a police sergeant in the parking lot of King Soopers has been dismissed.
McCormick-Rice accused Aurora police Lt. Charles DeShazer of jerking her 12-year-old daughter’s arm so hard that he broke her shoulder outside the store in June 2006.
The suit also says he choked the girl and called her a racial epithet. McCormick-Rice and her daughter are black, and DeShazer is white.
An incident-review board made up of four officers and four civilians cleared DeShazer of any wrongdoing.
DeShazer, a sergeant at the time, has since been promoted to lieutenant.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch dismissed the lawsuit against DeShazer on Sept. 17 on agreement of the parties. On Sept. 19, Matsch dismissed the lawsuit against the city of Aurora, citing a settlement.
Information on the amount of the settlement was unavailable.
