Denver police officer files ethics complaint against Councilwoman CdeBaca over protest confrontation

A Den­ver police offi­cer filed a city ethics com­plaint against Coun­cil­woman Can­di Cde­Ba­ca alleg­ing the coun­cil­woman belit­tled offi­cers at a removal of a home­less encamp­ment and tried to inflame pro­test­ers there.

Cde­Ba­ca called the police offi­cers stu­pid, cow­ards and said they were ani­mals, accord­ing to the com­plaint and video of the Aug. 19 inci­dent. She encour­aged pro­test­ers to sue the offi­cers and the police depart­ment if they were hit. Video of an offi­cer at the protests shows him strik­ing pro­test­ers with a baton, includ­ing some who had their hands up.

“The com­ments made by Coun­cil­woman Cde­Ba­ca were meant to dehu­man­ize and humil­i­ate offi­cers on scene in front of the pro­test­ers,” the police offi­cer, Mal­lo­ry Lutkin, wrote in her com­plaint to the Den­ver Board of Ethics.

Lisa Calderón, CdeBaca’s chief of staff, said Mon­day that the coun­cil­woman had no com­ment on the com­plaint. Calderon said the office will respond once their legal advis­er had time to review the document.

In a pre­vi­ous state­ment about the con­fronta­tion, Cde­Ba­ca said she was try­ing to speak on behalf of the peo­ple being forced to move from their tents, which were in her coun­cil dis­trict, and those who were hit by police. She said her com­ments were direct­ed at the offi­cers who stood by dur­ing the sweep, which she called inhu­mane, and did nothing.

The com­ments made an already tense sit­u­a­tion worse and caused oth­er pro­test­ers to insult the offi­cers, Lutkin wrote in her com­plaint. The coun­cil­woman also told a Black police offi­cer that he should be ashamed of him­self and then told Lutkin, who is white, that she expect­ed this from her, Lutkin wrote.

“The state­ments direct­ed at me insin­u­at­ed I am racist because I am white,” Lutkin wrote in the com­plaint, which was first report­ed by Den­ver tele­vi­sion sta­tion KDVR.

Two offi­cers suf­fered minor injuries at the protest, Den­ver police have said.

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