{"id":48959,"date":"2020-05-31T15:38:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T21:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=65063"},"modified":"2020-05-31T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T21:38:24","slug":"george-floyd-has-revived-a-colorado-effort-to-change-how-police-involved-deaths-are-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/george-floyd-has-revived-a-colorado-effort-to-change-how-police-involved-deaths-are-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"George Floyd has revived a Colorado effort to change how police-involved deaths are investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent protests across the country over the deaths of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/walz-confronts-criticism-over-protests-investigation\/570864092\/?refresh=true\">George Floyd in Minneapolis<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/local\/2020\/05\/27\/breonna-taylor-death-whos-investigating-lmpd-shooting-er-tech\/5244215002\/\">Breonna Taylor<\/a>&nbsp;in Louisville, Kentucky, at the hands of police officers have revived the conversation around how best to investigate police-involved deaths in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>State lawmakers were planning to try to make changes in the wake of the fatal Colorado Springs police shooting of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gazette.com\/news\/devon-bailey-case-colorado-springs-police-wont-face-charges-in-shooting-death-of-19-year\/article_160e50e2-0670-11ea-b8dd-27f27261a617.html\">19-year-old De\u2019von Bailey<\/a>\u00a0in August. The coronavirus crisis cut this year\u2019s legislative session short and left many of the efforts on the cutting room floor.<\/p>\n<p>But now, after Floyd\u2019s death renewed national attention on the issue, legislators may take a second look at police accountability, House Speaker KC Becker, a Boulder Democrat, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s interest in doing something,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One such bill that was being drafted before the legislature\u2019s pandemic pause created a statewide independent monitor program, similar to what\u2019s in place in Denver, to review and investigate law enforcement-involved deaths across the state. The drafting of the bill came after a handful of high-profile police deaths involving law-enforcement in Colorado, including the fatal shooting of Bailey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2020\/05\/29\/colorado-police-death-investigations-george-floyd\/\">Click here\u00a0<\/a>to read the rest of the story from the Colorado Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent protests across the country over the deaths of&nbsp;George Floyd in Minneapolis&nbsp;and&nbsp;Breonna Taylor&nbsp;in Louisville, Kentucky, at the hands of police officers have revived the conversation around how best to investigate police-involved deaths in Colorado. State lawmakers were planning to try to make changes in the wake of the fatal Colorado Springs police shooting of\u00a019-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-14 15:36:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}