Police Investigation "Smacks Of A Scam" Judge Finds, Orders Evidence Unsealed In Jail Abuse Case

Denver Post
Jun. 15, 2014



Despite objections from Denver city officials, a federal judge on Thursday unsealed police internal affairs records after determining that a police investigation "smacks of a scam."

The documents describe a Denver jail pod out of control with a sheriff's deputy routinely viewing pornography and drinking on the job, directing inmates to assault each other and settling scores with inmates he didn't like.

The documents stem from a case filed by a former Denver jail inmate who said he was beaten and tortured by other inmates at the direction of a deputy assigned to oversee his jail pod.

They also include a transcript of a prison interview between police Sgts. Brian Cotter and Brad Lenderink of Denver's Internal Affairs Office and former jail inmate Amos Page. The police officers warned Page that by testifying in former inmate Jamal Hunter's civil suit, he could be implicating himself in a crime.

READ the the Internal Affairs Bureau case investigation summary report

Another report documents a 2011 incident in which Deputy Edward Keller grabbed Hunter by the neck and shoved him down on his bunk.

U.S. District Judge John Kane ordered the documents and related video released. Kane has asked federal prosecutors to investigate the "patterns and practices" of the police and sheriff's departments.

Sheriff's Deputy Gaynel Rumer is both the subject of a criminal investigation and the defendant in a lawsuit in which he is accused of allowing inmates to attack another jail inmate.

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