Author: Christopher Osher, Colorado Politics

Denver District Attorney Beth McCann has reversed course, announcing Sunday that her second in command will resign for bullying other staffers and intimidating another top prosecutor with a baseball bat. McCann, in the email to her staff, said she could not let the controversy over Assistant District Attorney Ryan Brackley’s actions become “an ongoing distraction…

Denver District Attorney Beth McCann will restructure the duties of her second in command and require him to undergo executive training for taking “half swings” with a baseball bat at a female prosecutor in a dispute and for making what McCann called “demeaning and inappropriate comments” to other employees. The action followed investigation of the…