Four years after West Jordan police officers shot and killed 23-year-old Michael Glad, a judge has decided that the public may finally learn why officers pulled the trigger.
West Jordan police officers fatally shot Michael Glad in 2018, but their reasonings have so far been kept secret.
“Disclosing the Garrity interviews would further that interest,” she continued, “by enabling the public to assess the use of lethal force here.” . That decision protects government employees from being criminally prosecuted based on information given during these interviews,ruling that doing so would violate employees’ Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
Michael Glad appears on a series of murals depicting people killed by police, near 800 South and 300 West in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, July 29, 2020.police shooting data collection project called Shots FiredThat request set off a series of back-and-forths between The Tribune and city officials about whether or not the records should be released, leading to the hearing at the State Records Committee.
Releasing the records would “create a danger of depriving a person of a right to a fair trial or impartial hearing” if this case resulted in a civil suit.