The mother of a Utah man shot to death by five cops during a traffic stop Wednesday had sued the department last 12 months over an eerily similar traffic stop of her own, in keeping with a report.
Chase Allan, 25, was killed around 3:20 p.m. when Farmington cops pulled him over near town’s post office for driving with out a license and called for backup when he became “non-compliant,” the department said Thursday.
Cops said Chase “asserted his independence from the laws of the land” by telling officers he was not required to supply information to the officer or cooperate.
“During an try and remove the driving force from the vehicle shots were fired and the driving force was injured,” cops claim. Chase was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Chase’s mother, Diane Allan, claimed police pulled her over for a similar reason in April 2022.
In line with court records obtained by KSL News Radio, cops conducted a traffic stop for driving with out a license and an expired registration.
As “one in every of the sovereign people of Utah” driving her own automobile in Farmington, Diane argued she had an “inherent right” to “access the general public roads without her Liberty restrained.”
Diane claimed police weren’t only proof against her claims, but unprofessional and childish.
Considered one of the officers allegedly threw “the paper citation through Plaintiff’s window” before walking away after she refused handy over her license, registration, or insurance information to the police.
Even the Farmington police chief participated within the unethical behavior, she claimed — then-Lt. Eric Johnson allegedly took what she called “the Rescissioned citation” from her hands, crumpled it and tossed it in a trash bin while “threatening” to impound her automobile when she visited the department several days later.
Diane claims Chase stood together with her within the lobby in the course of the meltdown and witnessed the unprofessionalism that will cost him his life nearly a 12 months later.
“Officers claim it was a routine traffic stop, yet the officer requested multiple other officers to the scene a pair blocks prior to the stop,” Chase’s family said in an announcement Thursday.
“This resulted within the brutal murder of Chase by the hands of 5 Farmington Cops, with them shooting him while he was still in his automobile and sure terrified for his safety.
The Allan family claims the police are “stonewalling” them and didn’t notify them of Chase’s death — they reportedly came upon through the media.
On Friday, Chief Johnsen said the department was reviewing body camera footage of the deadly incident that indicates he was carrying a gun.
The videos — which haven’t been released to the general public — allegedly show Chase with a holster on his right hip and a handgun lying on the driving force’s-side floorboard, an announcement obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune states.
Johnsen didn’t say whether Chase brandished or fired his weapon.
