DENVER — Denver Police Chief Robert White on Sunday defended his policy ordering officers not to interfere with protesters, saying he found it ‘‘disgusting’’ that they vandalized a memorial for fallen police officers while officers had to stand by and watch, but he said their restraint was necessary to protect the community.
I wrote agent provocateurs in the margin of my print paper to describe this staged, mind-manipulating psyop.
Protesters threw red paint on the memorial during a march Saturday against police brutality.
Officers and the city’s police union were upset after they were told not to interfere.
The policy for Denver police was issued following widespread protests over several police shootings, including that of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Mo. In Denver, some protesters held signs in support of Jessica Hernandez, who was shot and killed by Denver officers after she drove a stolen car toward an officer....
Is that how it happened, and was the car stolen?
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FLASHBACK:
"Chief: Not clear how officer was hurt when teen was killed" Associated Press January 30, 2015
DENVER — A Denver police officer involved in the deadly shooting of a 17-year-old girl may have been injured trying to get out of the way of a stolen car the teenager was driving, the police chief said Thursday.
Oh, I'm sure she deserved to die then.
The possibility raised during a preliminary investigation of the shooting clouded Chief Robert White’s initial statement that two of his officers opened fire after one was struck by the car.
The shooting occurred early Monday after the officers found Jessica Hernandez and four other teenagers inside the car in an alley. White said the officers told the teens several times to get out of the vehicle.
A passenger in the car, who spoke on condition of anonymity, has disputed the official account, saying that officers approached the car from behind and fired four times into the driver’s side window. The passenger also said that officers did not yell commands before firing and that the car struck the officer after Hernandez was shot and lost control of it.
Department policy encourages officers to move out of the way of a moving car rather than use their firearm. But it also allows them to shoot if they have no other way to prevent death or serious injury.
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