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Undercover cops were among the unruly at DNC
By Felisa Cardona
The Denver Post
When a Jefferson County deputy deployed pepper spray into a crowd during the first night of the Democratic National Convention, he did not know that his targets were undercover Denver police officers.
During a melee that occurred Aug. 25 between protesters, police and bystanders near Civic Center Park, undercover Denver detectives staged a struggle with a police commander in order to get out of the crowd undetected.
A Jefferson County deputy, unaware of the presence of undercover police, thought that the commander was being attacked and deployed the pepper spray, according to a police use-of-force report obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado.
What the ACLU got was an after incident report that's typically required whenever weapons are used. Since such a report is part of the protocol set up to "protect" the government officials from personal liability for any misuse resulting in personal injury, as well as to insure that the liability insurance coverage is maintained, such incident reports are ipso facto self-serving.
That the headline does not seem to be supported by the report in the sense that there's no evidence anyone other than the cops was being "unruly," can probably be explained by the common practice of employing professional headline writers and the shared interest in bending over backwards in the interest of objectivity.
In the event, the explanation that
undercover Denver detectives staged a struggle with a police commander in order to get out of the crowd undetected
is only credible to someone whose opinion of the police is already at rock bottom.
Whatever happened to all that inter-operable communications equipment homeland security grants are presumably buying?
