Boulder NAACP, which announced its dissolution earlier this month, has been at odds with the City of Boulder and its new Chief of Police, Stephen Redfearn. In a recently filed civil lawsuit, former Boulder NAACP member Darren O’Connor alleges that Redfearn, the City of Boulder, and City Manager Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde violated his rights to free speech through retaliatory actions.
Many formal complaints were made to the city of Boulder, specifically the city manager, Rivera-Vandermyde, urging them to reconsider his appointment in light of already deep-seated mistrust of the police. After much back and forth, which is covered in detail in our previous article, a mediated meeting was held between the Boulder NAACP and Redfearn in July 2024.
While the city of Boulder and Redfearn attempted to make members sign a confidentiality clause, they refused. Though the meeting did little to ease the minds of either party, things really began to escalate when Redfearn and Rivera-Vandermyde became aware that a member of the NAACP had recorded the meeting…