Retired teacher sues Denver police officers for excessive force, false arrest

Retired teacher sues Denver police officers for excessive force, false arrest

On a September night almost four years ago, a retired teacher was watching TV in his northeast Denver home when three Denver Police Department officers banged on his door. The officers told Elroy Lee, then 76, that a tracking device was showing a stolen cellphone was inside his house. Lee insisted no stolen phone was in the house and agreed to a search. But when he tried to follow police inside, Officer Choice Johnson grabbed Lee’s shoulder, twisted him around and then grabbed his hand and bent his fingers backward, according to a civil rights lawsuit complaint in U.S. District ...

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Retired Denver teacher tells jury he did not resist police

An 80-year-old man testified Monday in federal court that he never would have tried to start a fight with Denver police officers because he knew how it would have ended. “Three of those policemen there,” Elroy Lee said. “I would not have caused conflict. I would lose. I knew that.” Lee is suing the city and Denver police officers Choice Johnson, David Ryan and Randall Krause for violating his civil rights after the officers handcuffed him outside his home in September 2012. The officers had come to Lee’s northeast Denver home after a cellphone app showed a stolen phone was ...

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