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Colorado promised transparency around police misconduct, but is still not holding most rogue cops publicly accountable.

Raven Payment, who is Ojibwe and Kanienkehaka, works closely on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people, who face disproportionately high rates of violence. She sat down with In the NoCo to talk about strides and setbacks since the passage of a state law meant to acknowledge and address the problem.

Denver will pay $4.7 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged that protesters were unjustly targeted for violating the city's curfew during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd in 2020.

The suspect was found dead Wednesday evening and has been identified as 17-year-old Austin Lyle.

At a vigil for Elias Armstrong on Thursday, Thomas Armstrong said a police detective told the family that the people in the stolen car fired one or two shots while the car's owner fired 15 rounds, "emptying his clip." Surveillance video obtained by The Denver Gazette show the Feb. 5 shootout lasted a matter of seconds, with the man quickly running to the car after finding it.

Jurors on Friday found police used excessive force against protesters, violating their constitutional rights, during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd two years ago, ordering the city to pay a total of $14 million in damages to a group of 12 who sued.

The trial for a lawsuit accusing Denver police of using indiscriminate force two years ago against people protesting the killing of George Floyd started Monday in federal court.

Police often rely on eyewitnesses to identify suspects. But experts say witnessing a crime can be traumatic and the brain is often uncertain on the details. This is especially true when trying to identify suspects with a showup near a crime scene, which usually involves one person versus a group of people in other types of lineups. The misidentification and wrongful arrest of a Black teen led to a grassroots movement in Colorado to change this practice.

For months people have been protesting against police brutality. At the same time, Denver has been experimenting with removing police from some emergency situations and sending in unarmed mental health professionals instead.

Police released a surveillance photo Tuesday of three people believed to have started a house fire in suburban Denver that killed five recent immigrants from the West African nation of Senegal.