Five Denver, Colorado sheriff’s deputies won’t be disciplined for their involvement in the death of a street preacher at Denver’s jail, even though the coroner ruled it a homicide.<\/p>\n
Safety Manager Charles Garcia<\/strong> says an investigation concluded that the deputies didn’t violate the department’s use-of-force policy or any other department rules related to use of force in the death of 56-year-old Marvin Booker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “After a thorough review of the investigation and after considering the recommendations of the city’s Independent Monitor, this office concludes that the deputies did not violate the department’s use-of-force policies or any other department rules related to use of force,” Garcia<\/strong> said. “Therefore, no disciplinary sanctions will be ordered.”<\/p>\n There are claims from the family of Booker <\/strong>that sheriff’s officials covered up details of his death on July 9, 2010.<\/p>\n On Monday, police released a 40-page report regarding Booker’s<\/strong> death and the surveillance video of the incident. Booker<\/strong> died after deputies tried to subdue him by getting on top of him, placing him in a “sleeper” hold and shocking him with a stun gun.<\/p>\n An attorney for the family says the 5-foot-5, 135-pound Booker<\/strong> had 1,000 pounds of law enforcement on top of him.<\/p>\n The deputies believe Booker <\/strong>was alive when they put him in a holding cell, but cannot say for certain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five Denver, Colorado sheriff’s deputies won’t be disciplined for their involvement in the death of a street preacher at Denver’s jail, even though the coroner ruled it a homicide. Safety Manager Charles Garcia says an investigation concluded that the deputies didn’t violate the department’s use-of-force policy or any other department rules related to use of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}