North Carolina deputies claimed they shot and killed an innocent Black man because he struck three of their patrol cars as he tried to drive away from them after they tried to stop him for alleged drugs in his car in 2022.

But Malcolm Staton, 30, who was driving the car with his girlfriend in the passenger’s seat and three children in the back seat, had no drugs or guns in the car when Union County sheriff’s deputies killed him.

On Monday, September 23, a federal judge approved a $3.25 million settlement to Staton’s family.

“I don’t think nobody is prepared to see their father get killed,” Staton’s girlfriend, Cree Faulkner, said in a news conference about a month after the shooting.

“Especially not a 2-year-old girl who had to see her dad’s blood splattered on his face.”

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