Broomfield tentatively agrees to conversation after officer fatally shot man described as ‘on the spectrum’

Broomfield residents have gone nearly five months without a public discussion after their neighbor was shot and killed by a police officer — and the city has now tentatively agreed to a conversation about Police Department policies.

Morris Selden, 65, was fatally shot June 26 after officers responded to a call from his sister, who told dispatch Selden was angry and holding a knife, according to audio from the 911 call. She described him as “somewhere on the spectrum.”

In the Broomfield City Council’s Tuesday night meeting, some public commenters called attention to a long lack of response to their requests for a discussion about the department’s policies in light of Selden’s death…

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