Denver Mayor Hickenlooper asks FBI to review police actions in beating of man in LoDo - The Denver Post
Note beating of innocent bystander and subsequent arrest. False police reports were filed by the police officers involved.
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper on Monday moved to have the FBI review the actions of police officers accused of covering up the beating of a 23-year-old man outside a LoDo nightclub.
“To help ensure justice is appropriately served, the city has requested the FBI review this case in its entirety,” the mayor said in a prepared statement.
The city’s video of the beating appeared on national news broadcasts Monday and went viral on the Internet following local reports over the weekend.
The video, from a police surveillance camera in Lower Downtown, shows Michael DeHerrera doing nothing but talking on a cellphone when Officer Devin Sparks takes him down, face first to the ground, and begins hitting him with a department-issued device called a sap, a piece of metal wrapped in leather.
Hickenlooper met with Ron Perea, his new safety manager, and asked for the FBI review of the April 4, 2009, incident.