police
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Restrictions on no-knock search warrants pass Colorado legislature
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Three years ago, Breonna Taylor was fatally shot in her Kentucky apartment by police executing a no-knock warrant for her ex-boyfriend. Taylor’s death inspired national outrage and debate on the use of search warrants that allow police to forcibly enter people’s homes without warning. Colorado lawmakers are now tackling the issue with Senate Bill 254. If made…
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Colorado appeals court agrees media organizations not entitled to police officer records
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The state’s second-highest court on Thursday agreed the Colorado Attorney General’s Office acted reasonably by refusing to provide two media outlets with records of police officers who are certified and, for misconduct-related reasons, decertified as law enforcement. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals determined the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Board qualifies…
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Colorado Democrats OK bill to prevent police from lying to minors during interrogations
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After more than a year of trying, Colorado Democrats passed a bill Monday to restrict police from lying to minors during interrogations. If signed into law by the governor, House Bill 1042 would make any statements obtained by juveniles during custodial interrogations inadmissible in court if law enforcement knowingly presented untruthful information to the juvenile during the interrogation…
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Federal judge denies immunity to Denver officer sued for false arrest, retaliation
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A federal judge has declined to dismiss a lawsuit alleging a Denver police officer arrested a man without probable cause of a crime and retaliated against him when the man asked a bystander to record the interaction. John Collins claimed Officer Austin Barela approached him while he was working to fix a car, then badgered…
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Federal judge refuses to dismiss 78-year-old man’s excessive force claims against Westminster officer
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A federal judge last week refused to dismiss an elderly man’s excessive force claims against a Westminster police officer who pushed him to the ground and tased him inside a Walmart. Lawyers for the city and Officer Michael Owen attempted to portray Clayton Louis Shriver, a retired electrician who reportedly suffers from numerous medical conditions,…
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Federal judge allows men who harassed passersby at Denver Union Station to sue officer, RTD
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Two men who yelled obscenities at children, hurled sexist comments and broadcast a torrent of swear words through a megaphone outside Denver Union Station may sue their arresting officer for allegedly lacking probable cause of a crime, a federal judge ruled last week. In declining to dismiss Abade Irizarry and Kyle Shockley’s claims, U.S. District…
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10th Circuit agrees Facebook photos, not discrimination, the cause of Denver employee’s firing
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A former custodian for the City and County of Denver failed to show that race was the reason for her firing, rather than her misleading representation of herself online as a police officer, the federal appeals court based in Colorado ruled on Wednesday. Denver terminated Emina Gerovic, a white woman from Bosnia-Herzegovina, in November 2017. She alleged…
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East High School students urge Denver City Council to act on gun violence issue
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After a shooting injured one student outside of East High School last week, a teacher and two students addressed the Denver City Council Tuesday, sharing their fears of gun violence in and around schools and asking for school resource officers to be re-instated in Denver Public Schools. They spoke during the public hearing portion of…
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10th Circuit hears appeal of Denver custodian fired for online representation as police officer
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The federal appeals court based in Denver appeared reluctant on Monday to accept the argument of a former Denver custodian who alleges her race and national origin were the reason she was fired from the city – rather than her supervisors’ stated reason: that she held herself out publicly as a police officer. Emina Gerovic,…
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10th Circuit hears Denver’s request to throw out jury’s verdict for excessive force
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Almost 10 years to the day after Denver police shot at Michael Valdez 19 times while he lay on the ground in surrender, lawyers for the city were back in court seeking to throw out his excessive force lawsuit. This time, Valdez was armed with a jury’s verdict finding Denver liable for failing to train…