Mayor Mike Johnston recently claimed without evidence that a Denver Police Department captain was shot by an “anti-migrant activist” who “came in to shoot up” one of the city-run migrant shelters in 2023.
“We have a captain on our watch right now who took three bullets in the back because he was defending a migrant shelter one night when an anti-migrant activist came in to shoot up that center,” Johnston told City Cast Denver last week. “And instead, he was there and took three bullets to save the lives of the people inside that facility.”
Johnston told the story as an example of the police department’s commitment to protect immigrants. But neither the mayor’s office nor the Denver Police Department found evidence that the actual event Johnston was referring to matched the most politically charged details in his telling…