Federal judge urges feds to investigate Denver police, sheriff in abuse case

Source: Denver Post

U.S. District Judge John Kane has asked federal authorities to investigate the "patterns and practices" of the Denver police and sheriff's offices and suggested they were intimidating a key witness.

In an emergency hearing, Kane ordered Denver police internal affairs detectives to stop an investigation against witness Amos Page, who is testifying in the case of a former jail inmate.

The inmate, Jamal Hunter, has accused the city and Denver jail Deputy Gaynel Rumer of facilitating and encouraging a brutal 2011 attack against him in his cell. Rumer did not come to Hunter's aid while the inmate screamed and fellow inmates attacked him.

Kane on Friday ordered Denver police to produce all documents in its investigation of Page, including recordings of interviews, e-mails, notes and correspondence by June 16.

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