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Denver Jury Awards $4.6 Million In Police Killing Of Homeless Preacher

October 18, 2014 Susan Greene, www.coloradoindependent.com , , , ,
A federal jury has delivered what may be the costliest verdict yet in a Denver excessive force case. The $4.6 million jury award to Marvin Booker’s family came after jurors found five Denver sheriff deputies excessively restrained and subdued homeless street preacher Marvin Booker, failed to try to save his life and acted with “evil motive” or intent when he died in July 2010 on the floor of the city jail booking room. “The truth has finally been spoken and now our brother and father can rest in peace,” said Calvin Booker, a pastor in the Booker family’s hometown of Memphis. “The jury spoke loud and clear about what’s sick in the sheriffs department and sick in the city. It’s corruption, plain and simple. It’s corruption that needs to be cleaned up from the top down.”

Occupy Protesters Gather Outside The Home Of Denver CEO

March 25, 2014 Kate Gibbons, www.denverpost.com ,
Occupy Denver protesters have set up camp outside the head of the Downtown Denver Partnership's Park Hill home, accusing her of criminalizing homelessness. Every Sunday afternoon, picketers who hold Tami Door, CEO of the partnership, responsible for the ban on urban camping chant and carry signs on her quiet residential street. "You should be considered a criminal for taking the blankets away from homeless people and children," protester Janet Matzen shouted at Door's home. Matzen, holding a sign that said "Wanted! Tami Door," has been protesting every Sunday since November, when the group first targeted Door's residence.
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