DENVER – Coloradans are outraged and demanding action from city leaders after seeing our investigative report about a dog owner beaten by two Denver Police officers. Now the Denver police independent monitor says he’s responding to the public outcry and reviewing the video to see if a larger investigation is warranted.
Mark Ashford was walking his dogs near 20th and Little Raven, when he witnessed police pull over a driver for failing to stop at a stop sign. He told the driver he saw him stop and would be willing to testify in court. His attorney, Will Hart, said the police officers overheard Ashford’s comment and “weren’t happy about it.”
Hart said the officers demanded Ashford’s I.D. and wouldn’t let him leave. “They had no reason to stop him or detain him, that’s a violation of his fourth amendment rights,” said Hart. Ashford then tried to take a picture of the officers to document the incident, but both the officers pulled his hand behind his back and attempted to arrest him. Ashford appeared to struggle before he was slammed into a railing, punched repeatedly in the face and wrestled to the ground.
Ashford was charged with interference and resisting arrest, but the charges were later dropped, “because the city attorney agreed his fourth amendment rights were violated,” said Hart. Excessive force complaints were filed against the officers.
A Denver police department spokesperson said the internal affairs investigation is closed, but the independent police monitor says he is reviewing the surveillance video to determine if the police officers used excessive force.
There are days I wish this would happen to me….I sure could use the money.
Sue baby sue.
Until it costs the taxpayer to keep these fkin idiots in diapers, they will be tolerated.
$500,000 for the victim at a minimum.
Looks like these camera’s have backfired on them its catching the criminals that work for the police dept. and the ones that don’t.
lol… the local police are prolly all amped up over the deluge of pseudo-survivalist monied city slickers moving into denver in hopes to escape whatever 2012 doom&gloom documentary alluded that their city would be underwater etc.
wonder if one of the two here were new residents.
(I know quite a few nyorkers who have moved to denver for this exact reason. Most often line i hear once they are there: “there are an awful lot of buildings in the middle of nowhere with no windows…”)
…i just laugh.
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Didn’t George Bush Senior resign from the NRA because they sent out a mailer about jack-booted government thugs?
Suing the city or the cops is like a community foot shot. You know who ends up paying. If the story line is anywhere close to the truth, these cops should be good for about 20 years worth of charges both federal and state. It seems to me that if the responsible procecutorial authorities find evidence compelling yet fail to bring charges that they become an accessories after the fact to the cops criminal activity alleged in the story. Oh well, you and I both know what is going to happen right?
#22. “Looks like these camera’s have backfired on them its catching the criminals that work for the police dept.”
Actually the cameras are precisely doing their job… which is why most cops *don’t* want the cameras to be there. The old line of “yeah, cops want cameras there so they can tell the truth when we *don’t* beat someone” is said under the same (somewhat idiotic) logic that produces a person carrying contraband saying “Go ahead and search me, you won’t find nothing!” (The idea of course being if they say that, maybe the person about to search/put a camera in place will decide the guy has a trustworthy face and move on. What can I say, people are, on the whole, stupid.)
I agree with #7, about the dogs.
These are the same people(cops)who are always crying nobody likes us!
They should be sent to prison, gen. population!
Maybe it’s a setup to get money from the city.
Saw it on The Practice where a cop lover does a poor search and the guy walks on murder charge.
Until there is a “Death Wish” hero who takes out bad cops, this will not stop.
You can sue all day…until you’re old and bankrupt.
Give these aśśhole cops the same beatings they dole out.
Cut the cops some slack will ya.. they keep our cities safe at the peril of their lives. They need to have a carte blanche to accomplish their tasks, not with their hands tied behind their backs.
NOTHING WORKS LIKE A TASTE OF ONE’S OWN MEDICINE.
GIVE SOME TO THE MAYOR, TOO.
Until there’s a Death-Wish hero who takes out scum cops, this will continue.
You can litigate all day, until you’re old and bankrupt.
Give these aśśholes the same beatings they dole out.
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Anyone that knows a tiny bit about fighting knows these two cops are a joke. Do you see the cop on the left hitting the chest of the man? Fcking hilarious. Pussies. These two wouldn’t last in a real fight.