"Necessary Force": The Denver Police Department

During that time, the assailants — seeking to sustain the fiction that they were subduing a
dangerous, resisting criminal — called for “backup.” A thugscrum of about ten officers quickly
congealed at the scene. As many as a half-dozen of them helping to restrain the
unresisting Moore, who was already hog-tied and remained conscious for roughly half of the amount of time described by Polak.

“Every time I tried to say something, they raised my leg higher into the air behind my back, causing my diaphragm to push into my lungs to shut off my air supply,” Moore pointed out. “I could not breathe out, much less breathe in.” Even though he was helpless, hog-tied, face-down on the concrete, and suffocating, the police continued to beat him unstintingly while chanting the preferred refrain of the rapist: “Stop resisting! Stop resisting!”

Swaggering coward Shawn Miller bullies a small, disabled woman.

Moore in rehab following back surgery.

By 2008, however, “I was healthy again, and looking forward to
live. Julie and I planned to make a life together, but that ended the night
that the cops attacked me.” Julie, whose only involvement in the March 25, 2008 incident was to be a witness to the Denver PD’s gang assault on her boyfriend, was abducted by the police and slapped with several entirely contrived charges, including assault on an officer, resisting arrest, and “obstruction.” While in jail following her arrest, Julie was told that the police would have the couple evicted from their apartment — and they made good on the threat.

Julie spent the next two years fighting the fraudulent and vindictive charges against her. Although James and Julie are still on cordial terms, the
accumulated trauma of the evening and her subsequent incarceration ended the
relationship.

Denver’s
police department is among
the most notoriously abusive agencies of its kind in the Mountain West
. Two
years ago, in the context of growing public outrage over accumulating episodes
of criminal assault by police,
Chief
Gerald Whitman told the local NBC affiliate that “the
police department is under control” and that it actually receives fewer
use-of-force complaints than departments in most other major cities. 

Apparently
the public is expected to confide in the Chief’s uncorroborated assurances, because
he is determined to preserve the institutional opacity of his department.





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