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Police kill more people per capita here in the Mountain West than almost any other place in the nation. Researchers say there鈥檚 one big reason why: guns.

As protest events continue, many different groups are showing up with guns, throwing safety into question.

A dispatcher says someone was reportedly walking around a house when the owners were away on vacation. An update says that person appears to be holding a gun. An officer approaches that person, whose hands are in their pockets. They interact for a short time, and then the person quickly pulls something out of a pocket and points. Quick 鈥� is it a gun or a cell phone?

Paramedics unnecessarily sedated hundreds of people with ketamine during confrontations with police officers in Colorado, exposing them to potentially life-threatening complications associated with the drug. That鈥檚 according to an estimate from Dr. Mark DeBard, a professor emeritus of emergency medicine at Ohio State University and expert in cases of 鈥渆xcited delirium.鈥�

A growing number of people want Colorado officials to pause or ban medics from using ketamine on people during escalated confrontations with police. The list includes two men who were given the powerful anesthetic when medics and police decided they showed signs of 鈥渆xcited delirium鈥� or extreme 鈥渁gitation.鈥�

KUNC reporters Adam Rayes and Leigh Paterson join Colorado Edition鈥檚 Erin O鈥橳oole to talk about how and why Colorado鈥檚 protest movements have evolved over time.

Three people were arrested and another cited after fights broke out at a Fort Collins pro-police rally that attracted counter protesters, authorities said.

Prosecutors are investigating whether suburban Denver police officers should face criminal charges for putting four Black girls on the ground and handcuffing two of them after mistakenly suspecting they were riding in a stolen car, a district attorney said Friday.

More than 100 agencies across Colorado have approval from the state to allow medics to use ketamine, an anesthetic, on people who show signs of what's often dubbed "excited delirium," a practice that is now drawing national criticism from anesthesiologists and psychiatrists.

It is impossible for police to employ them in a way that does not risk severe injury, or even death, to protesters, according to weapons experts.