Dear reader, Brandon, population 21, lies three hours southeast of Denver. It’s a speck of a place amid Colorado’s Southeastern Plains as they reach toward Kansas. On the afternoon of April 9...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/08/31/colorado-sheriffs-shooting-public-information/
ALAMOSA — The protesters, about a dozen in all, gathered on June 4 in the intersection of State Avenue and Main Street. Like protesters across the country in the aftermath of George Floyd’s k...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/27/alamosa-floyd-protests-shooting/
AURORA — Aurora-area law enforcement agencies are receiving a renewed flood of calls and emails asking officials to further examine the death of Elijah McClain, the 23-year-old, unarmed black m...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/24/elijah-mcclain-death-aurora-police/
Update: SB20-217 “Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity” passed the legislature Friday afternoon and is now awaits Gov. Jared Polis’ signature. An expansive proposed law that will require poli...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/13/colorado-police-reform-bill/
The Sterling Correctional Facility sprawls across the prairies of Northeast Colorado. After a storm passed through last Saturday night, the families of a handful of inmates lined up facing the ra...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/10/colorado-covid-outbreak-sterling-prison-vigil/
On the 11th consecutive day of protests in Denver responding to the death of George Floyd after he was restrained by police in Minneapolis, the Denver Police Department on Sunday announced major ...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/08/denver-police-change-use-of-force-policy/
Jayla Felix took a bus and then light rail from east Aurora to Denver Sunday to see black lives mattering in person. By that point, the 14-year-old had been to only one protest – a women’s ma...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/04/girl-march-denver-floyd-matter-night/
The protests in downtown Denver come from a place of fear, anger, and distrust. The narrative during the first four days of protests seemed to frequently be blaming the protesters for vandalism a...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/02/militarized-police-protestors-wrong-message/
A pair of Denver officers taught me a few things in the summer of 2018. #1: That a woman ought to “Act like a lady” when unlawfully being handcuffed for photographing police. And #2: That des...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/06/02/denver-police-protest-first-amendment-journalists/
There was no tear gas or pepperbullets, though 11 police officers were standing by — far away from the crowd — in riot gear. Protesters didn’t throw rocks or water bottles. The first few ho...
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2020/05/30/denver-protests-police-floyd-capitol/