[Fundamentally Fair]

It is curious. Remember the series of racial motivated attacks in LODO where black yutes were sucker punching white and Latino men before robbing them? This was back towards the end of 2009. The cops were accused at that time of doing nothing. Maybe an over reaction?

Racially motivated attack claims bolstered by shocking "LoDo Wilding" footage 

Suspect in LoDo beatings found in Indiana 

Of course, while looking for stories on those incidents, I found this from yesterday:

Police "excessive force:" Denver quietly settles James Watkins suit over another LoDo incident 

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you for the comments and the links. I appreciate you mentioning the racial attacks. It’s certainly food for thought.

That case yesterday was what I was referencing in one of my posts, about this being more than an isolated incident. Something more is going on here.

Take care...

[Fundamentally Fair]

From yesterday’s story (another incident):

They (officers) say he threatened to assault the officers, chest-bumped Penn, refused to follow their orders and resisted arrest.

But charges against Watkins for allegedly assaulting an officer were later dropped…. A passerby apparently captured at least some of the encounter on his cell phone.

You know the rest of the story, right?

[colorado tanker]

It really isn't a bad department overall. It just looks bad that the police union lined up behind these guys and management only gave them a slap on the wrist.

I don't know any inside info here, but if I had to make a SWAG I'd say it's overreaction. It's happened before down there. IIRC it was after a big sports event, one of the Super Bowls or maybe the World Series they didn't bring enough manpower for crowd control and resorted to force.

It's a fine line. The Mall and LoDo can attract big crowds going down there for the bars and restaurants but there also are gangbangers, as noted in your links. So, they're trying to protect the law abiding citizens but having to deal with lots of drunks to do so.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The cops were accused at that time of doing nothing. Maybe an over reaction?

I don't think you send a message to the yutes by smacking around yuppie cracker dogwalkers.