Colorado reform law ends police immunity in civil misconduct cases

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Critics say legal immunity doctrine too often lets police brutality go unpunished. FMTNews

Governor Jared Polis signs a facsimile of broad police accountability bill at a press conference in Denver on Friday.

Polis, a first-term Democrat, took the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, celebrating the abolition of slavery in the United States, to formally enact the law. Carotid-pressure holds, similar to the technique that Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin used when he knelt on the neck of George Floyd in a fatal encounter on March 25, is also outlawed.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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