According to DP columnist Susan Greene, the Denver PD tends to be a bit shoddy in checking ID's:
Fury tinges Davis' voice when she tells how one officer mused, "This makes no sense to me," presumably after comparing police records about a white woman to the reality of Davis' brown skin."They were questioning me like I wasn't me," she says.
Police found no gun on Davis or her kids, charging her instead with interfering with a police officer and disobeying a lawful order. She pleaded guilty just to go home.
But deputies still wouldn't release her, citing a warrant for which they said she might have to wait 10 more days in jail until Jefferson County would come and haul her off.
That warrant was for a woman named Brandy Hair — whom, as it turns out, Denver police had arrested two days earlier on drug-possession charges. Hair happens to be 13 years younger than Davis. Not to mention white. Which is no minor oversight, given that Davis is black.
"Duh," she says.
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Among those plaintiffs are a Sterling mother the city mistook for a suspect weighing 90 pounds less.The city needlessly locked up a disabled former Denver sanitation worker four times, including once even after the man police really wanted was dead.
And deputies held a Latino construction worker for 26 days in lieu of a man with a discernibly different name, telling his pregnant wife he was lying to her about his identity.
Read the rest to get a sense of the nightmare Ms. Davis went through.
I wonder what punishment these cops get when they make such boneheaded errors?
