A former police officer has been found guilty of failing to intervene as another officer pistol-whipped and strangled an unarmed man, the first person to be convicted under Colorado's 'failure to intervene' law, passed after George Floyd was killed.
Francine Martinez became the first person to be convicted by a jury under the state's 2020 "failure to intervene" law, passed after George Floyd was killed.Deon J. Hampton
Francine Martinez, who worked for the Aurora Police Department, became the first officer in the state to be convicted by a jury under a policeadopted in 2020 A jury in Arapahoe County District Court determined last week that Martinez stood by as former officer John Haubert struck Kyle Vinson more than a dozen times with his handgun and threatened to kill him in July 2021.shows. Vinson sustained a cut on his head, and one eye was swollen shut.“This should be a wake-up call for all law enforcement officers that the thin blue line of silence won’t be tolerated in Colorado,” Vinson's attorney, Siddhartha Rathod, said Tuesday.
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