Two Denver police officers will serve unpaid suspensions for using excessive force on demonstrators during two separate protests in 2020.
Highlights
- Officer Jesse Trudel twice used pepper spray on people peacefully protesting the murder of George Floyd.
- Body camera video shows the people he targeted were not posing any threat, police disciplinary letter says.
- Another officer, Daniel Veith, will serve a five-day unpaid suspension for using his baton to hit a person who was protesting the forced removal of an encampment of people experiencing homelessness on Aug.
- 19, 2020.
- Veith was within policy when he struck three others with his batons or nunchucks during the incident because people he hit either attempted to take his batone or try to hit him or another officer, the letter states.
- The officer said it was the first time he was in a “large-scale riot’s riot”