Tag: denver jail
Video: Denver deputies fatally restrain Michael Marshall
Michael Lee Marshall, a mentally ill, homeless man, was fatally restrained by Denver sheriff's deputies at the jail in November. Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey announced...
Rift deepens between Hancock and black leaders
Tensions long have festered between Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver’s black pastors. Especially since the recent death of a mentally ill homeless man restrained...
Hancock administration’s “transparency” about Michael Marshall’s death is hard to see
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s administration says it’s “committed to transparency” about the death last week of Michael Lee Marshall after sheriff’s deputies restrained him...
Michael Lee Marshall and Marvin Booker: Parallels in both life and...
Michael Lee Marshall didn’t know about Marvin Booker until days before he died.
The two men had lots in common.
Both had mental health problems and...
The Bookers are back. Family pushes for reform in the city...
Every July 9, a group gathers outside the Denver jail to remember a moment in city history the Hancock administration would rather forget.
That was...
House approves police chokehold ban
In 2010, deputies choked and killed street-preacher Marvin Booker in the Denver jail. Last year, his family won a $4.6 million civil settlement from...
Excessive-force trial throws spotlight on notorious Denver jail
For more than four years, Denver’s official story on Marvin Booker has been that he died of natural causes, coincidentally while under a pile of deputies who had handcuffed, nunchucked, choked and Tasered him.
Man charged with spitting while HIV positive was denied meds in...
HIV positive William O'Kelly was arrested and charged with attempted second-degree assault with a deadly weapon because he allegedly spit on another man in a dispute. Yet when he was taken into custody, authorities held him for 24 hours without providing him access to his medications, partly because they couldn't confirm he was HIV positive even though, in effect, he was arrested only because he was HIV positive.