Two innocent Black men who spent weeks in jail on false attempted murder charges were denied justice after an appellate court ruled that Denver police had qualified immunity when using nothing more than “ambiguous surveillance video” to arrest them for shooting into a crowd back in 2021.
But Trevor Puller and DeAndre Hutchinson were the actual victims in that shooting, and were trying to drive away after an unidentified person in the crowd fired at them and “multiple bullets hit the car,” according to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which published its opinion on April 24.
One of those rounds even struck an innocent bystander standing behind their car when the shooting started, making it impossible for him to have been shot by Hutchinson, who was riding in the passenger seat while Puller was driving.
But Denver police officers Nicholas Greco and Nicodemus Werth based their evidence on the city’s HALO video surveillance system, a city-wide, police-run operation that monitors “high-crime” areas in real time – but has proven to be another example of police using modern technology to prey on innocent Black people, as Atlanta Black Star has reported many times…