The Aurora Police Department was served with a third lawsuit in relation to police uses of force Wednesday following a tasing incident in May 2024.

The lawsuit came on May 18, a year after the May 22, 2024 incident, and police body camera footage of the incident was released by attorneys Wednesday. The video shows Aurora officers holding LaDarius Butler, a father of two children who were in the car at the scene, at gunpoint and taking him into custody.

Officer Adrian Arce-Cerda tased Butler, who was unarmed and had complied with all of the officers' requests, according to a news release from attorneys Kevin Mehr and Tyler Jolly with Mehr Jolly PLLC and Jason Kosloski at Kosloski Law, PLLC.

Butler and his partner, Jayla Houston, took their 3-year-old son to the Children's Hospital Colora

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