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Community Corner – Boulder PD’s Social Media Hypocrisy

September 12, 2020 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

Boulder Police Officer Waylon Lolotai is alleged to have an Instagram account, @tacticaltoa, on which he speaks positively about police brutality and violent “use of force Fridays”. This includes his (alleged) comments about an officer punching a man another officer…

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Officer Lolotai in Boulder in More Trouble for Talking About Beating People Than Beating People | Community Corner

August 18, 2020 Like 1 Darren O'Connor

Boulder Police Officer Waylon Lolotai is alleged to have an Instagram account, @tacticaltoa, on which he frequently speaks positively about police brutal and violent use of force.

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Faces of Summer: Black Lives Matter Edition

July 23, 2020 Like 0 editor

In the end, a destination we haven’t reached and I’m not sure we ever will, history will remember this year, and these protests, in the same ways that history remembers the Civil Rights era of the 1960s.…

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Governor’s Order on Ballot Initiatives Highlights Justice Inequities – Community Corner

June 22, 2020 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

The pandemic is providing a lens through which inequity is plainly visible for all to see. Essential workers earning survival wages are dying so we can go to the supermarket, e.g., and Governor Polis has made highly visible public proclamations…

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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Denver Police Department, Alleges Police Violations

June 5, 2020 Like 0 De La Vaca

Class action lawsuit filed in response to police violence in Denver. We look forward to a world where no one is above the law. This class action lawsuit may be a great step in the right direction.

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Community Corner: Inspiring Incarceration Bills Signed in Colorado’s 2019 Legislative Session

June 16, 2019 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

This past legislative session saw some truly inspired bills regarding incarceration make it through the process to become law in Colorado, to the betterment of us all.

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Community Corner: What a difference a month makes

April 25, 2019 Like 0 Darren O'Connor

One month after eight officers surrounded a Black Naropa student for the non-crime of cleaning as part of his work study job on his own rental property, Boulder Police Department officers seem to feel the national spotlight had dimmed enough…