Tag: Butch Montoya

Outraged by misconduct in the Denver Sheriff’s Department, a coalition of African-American pastors is demanding that Mayor Michael Hancock’s administration implement reform.

“It’s reprehensible that leadership doesn’t have enough backbone to stand up and say this is wrong,” said Rev. Reginald Holmes, pastor of Denver’s New Covenant Christian Church/Alpha Omega Ministries.

DENVER -- After suspending a deputy for slamming an inmate into a window and misleading investigators about the attack, the Denver Sheriff's Department assigned him to train other officers on how to handle volatile situations and how to write official reports about use-of-force incidents.