Which crime suspects should be booked into jail? Which should pay bail?...
Should a person suspected of breaking into a cash register be booked into jail? Should they have to pay bond to get out? These are the questions Colorado lawmakers will ponder this session as they...
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Journalist arrested during protest pleaded with officer: “This is my job”
IOWA CITY, Iowa — An Iowa journalist recounted getting pepper-sprayed and arrested while covering a protest for racial justice last year, testifying in her own defense Tuesday at her trial on charges...
View ArticleU.S. narrows in on organized extremists in U.S. Capitol siege probe
As members of the Oath Keepers paramilitary group shouldered their way through the mob and up the steps to the U.S. Capitol, their plans for Jan. 6 were clear, authorities say. “Arrest this assembly,...
View ArticleColorado saw a nearly 30% spike in homicides in 2020, new data shows
New statewide Colorado crime data shows more people were killed in homicides last year than in any other year in at least the past decade. That statistic is one of many found in data released this week...
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Denver property crimes skyrocketed in 2020 — and there’s no sign the spike in...
The silver Lexus sedan pulled up just before 7 a.m. Tuesday. Two people got out, looked underneath Kym Bloom‘s Toyota Prius parked outside her Capitol Hill apartment building and then drove off,...
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Three bullets to the back: The striking silence around a police killing in a...
Part Two: This is the second in a two-part story about an April 2020 police killing on the Eastern Plains that has been shrouded in silence at a time of national and statewide uproar over excessive...
View ArticleColorado won’t stop county commissioners from serving on public health boards
An attempt to prevent politicians from serving on public health boards came to a halt in the Colorado Legislature this week. Rep. Cathy Kipp, a Fort Collins Democrat, had hoped the bill would remove...
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Majority of Western Colorado University faculty want president fired for...
Greg Salsbury The majority of faculty at Gunnison’s Western Colorado University have turned against the public college’s president, Greg Salsbury, after he equated the Jan. 6 insurrectionists with...
View ArticleJurors shown video of Floyd death at ex-officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial
MINNEAPOLIS — The video of George Floyd gasping for breath was essentially Exhibit A as the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee on the Black man’s neck went on trial Monday on...
View ArticleProsecutors detail incident that led to George Floyd’s arrest
MINNEAPOLIS — The convenience store cashier who sold cigarettes to George Floyd and was handed a counterfeit $20 bill in return took the stand Wednesday at Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial as...
View ArticleChauvin’s trial leaves many Black viewers emotionally taxed
For some it’s too much to watch. Others just can’t turn away. The televised trial of Derek Chauvin, the former white police officer charged in the death of George Floyd, has provoked strong emotions...
View ArticleDerek Chauvin trial: Police department was trained to avoid neck pressure
By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police are taught to restrain combative suspects with a knee on their back or shoulders if necessary but are told to “stay...
View ArticleMinnesota police shoot, kill man after traffic stop incident
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — The family of a 20-year-old Minnesota man told a crowd that he was shot by police Sunday before getting back into his car and driving away, then crashing the vehicle several...
View ArticleDaunte Wright shooting: Protesters face off against police in Minnesota after...
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — Police clashed with protesters for a second night in the Minneapolis suburb where an officer who authorities say apparently intended to fire a Taser, not a handgun, fatally...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Black Lives Matter protest and march in downtown Denver
Black Lives Matter supporters protested and marched in downtown Denver on Saturday afternoon April 17, 2021. The protest was held to stand in solidarity with Minnesota after the killing of Daunte...
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“Defund and abolish” and other anti-police graffiti found in Denver’s Capitol...
“Defund and abolish” anti-police graffiti, as well as references to a 13-year-old Chicago boy who was shot and killed by police in late March, showed up in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood over the...
View ArticleOut of sight but center stage, jurors weigh Chauvin’s fate
MINNEAPOLIS — The jurors who sat quietly off-camera through three weeks of draining testimony in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial in George Floyd’s death moved into the spotlight Tuesday, still out of...
View ArticleDaunte Wright’s mother: “My son should be burying me”
MINNEAPOLIS — Daunte Wright, the young Black man shot by police during a traffic stop in suburban Minneapolis, was remembered Thursday at an emotional funeral just two days after a former police...
View ArticleAs pandemic ebbs, an old fear is new again: mass shootings
PORTLAND, Ore. — Brianne Smith was overjoyed to get an e-mail telling her to schedule a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Hours later, her relief was replaced by dread: a phone alert — another mass...
View Article4 former Minneapolis cops indicted on U.S. civil rights charges in George...
MINNEAPOLIS — A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death, accusing them of willfully violating the Black man’s...
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