The city of Craig has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle claims brought by a man who suffered major injuries after a law enforcement officer intentionally plowed into him with an SUV .

Tanner Sholes last year filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Denver, alleging the Craig Police Department and the Moffat County Sheriff’s Office violated his constitutional rights on Sept. 22, 2023, when a sheriff’s lieutenant mowed him down in a police vehicle, following a lengthy, low-speed pursuit as Sholes walked along county roads.

Police in rural Colorado plowed into a suspect who had his hands up. The undersheriff who gave the command has since been promoted.

Sholes, who had a BB gun tucked beneath his shirt that day but never pointed it at law enforcement, suffered tears of the ACL, m

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