Justice for #PaulCastaway - July 20, 2015 - YouTube

30.7.15

Justice for Paul Castaway - July 20, 2015 - YouTube





Among the group were family and friends of Paul Castaway, a Native
American man who was recently killed by Denver police officer Mike Lee
Traudt.



The police had been called because Castaway was
suicidal, and in need of help. According to eyewitnesses and video
footage reviewed by FOX News reporter Tammy Vigil, Castaway was standing
with a knife to his own throat when Traudt murdered him.



The
official story from the Denver Police Department (DPD) was drastically
different than what this eyewitness and video footage revealed –
claiming Castaway lunged at officers with a knife.



At the point
in the demonstration this video begins the DPD had just started
arresting people – starting with a local videographer who was targeted
out of the group and violently arrested.



The police officers
then order the demonstrators back across the street. This puts them in
harms way, as the street had not been closed off.



Shortly after,
an angry driver, who was distracted because he’d paused to yell at other
demonstrators and didn’t look up before hitting the gas, rams his SUV
into two women.



Immediately after this, rather than take
interest in the man who just hit two people with his car, or the safety
of the two victims, the DPD protect the driver and instead violently
arrest a well-known activist. She suffered a concussion and other
injuries. As far as I know the driver was not ticketed or otherwise
charged.



Not long after this, the DPD arrest me as well - for the second time in just a few months.



Worse
yet, they arrested one of the women hit by the SUV. They literally took
her from an ambulance, to handcuffs, to the back of a police car, and
to jail.



For some good reporting about these events and the general milieu in Denver see this story from Kit O'Connell: http://www.mintpressnews.com/death-of...