Former Denver mayor candidate Terrance Roberts to receive settlement for 2020 pepper spray incident

Former Denver mayoral candidate and civil rights activist Terrance Roberts is set to receive a $50,000 settlement to resolve allegations that Denver police pepper-sprayed him without reason during …

and civil rights activist Terrance Roberts is set to receive a $50,000 settlement to resolve allegations that Denver police pepper-sprayed him without reason during a racial justice protest in July 2020.based on the incident last year. The suit named the city, former Denver police Chief Paul Pazen and three unidentified police officers as plaintiffs.

For Roberts, the lawsuit and tentative settlement are the latest chapter in a long history of police in Denver and Aurora targeting him for his advocacy. The Denver City Attorney’s Office didn’t return a request for comment on the settlement Monday afternoon.in a highly publicized case in 2015. He went on trial for shooting Bloods gang member Hasan Isaiah Jones two years earlier at a peace rally Roberts had organized in the Holly Square shopping center in his neighborhood of Park Hill. Roberts claimed the shooting was self-defense.

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