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Colorado Lawmaker Pushes For Accountability Amid Review Of Ketamine Use In Police Encounters

“We have to look at the proliferation of the use of ketamine throughout Colorado and we need to rein it in,” said Rep. Leslie Herod, a...

Rep. Leslie Herod joins CU Boulder BIPOC community call for police divestment on campus

"The Black, Indigenous and People of Color community of the University of Colorado Boulder campus, joined by Democratic state Rep. Leslie...

More than 200 police officers have resigned or retired since Colorado’s police reform bill became la

"The law, written by Rep. Leslie Herod, a Denver Democrat who chairs the state’s Black Democratic Legislative Caucus, was the first...

'A Historic Moment': Colorado Democratic Women Celebrate Biden's Pick Of Harris For VP

"This is a historic moment," said Colorado state Rep. Leslie Herod, a Denver Democrat and chairwoman of Colorado's Black Democratic...

Parents Of Elijah McClain Sue City Of Aurora, Colo., And Police Over His Death

"The parents of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died last year after police twice put him in a chokehold and paramedics sedated him, have...

Colorado Democrats applaud Biden's pick of Kamala Harris as running mate; GOP scowls

"It is time that we #trustblackwomen with the keys to the oval," tweeted state Rep. Leslie Herod, a Colorado co-chair of Harris'...

Colorado Police Dramatically Cut Enforcement Actions Amid Pandemic, New Accountability Law

"Colorado State Rep. Leslie Herod who wrote the initial version of the law proposed in the House was less sympathetic to Pride’s...

Colorado state lawmaker wants to address police departments' encrypted scanners

"Protesters might have actually known when they were about to be teargassed or shot with rubber bullets. There were not disbursement...

Colorado takes a giant step toward police reform

"Colorado became the first state since the police murder of George Floyd and mass uprising to lift the qualified immunity of police...

ENVISION:YOU PRESENTS 2020 ‘LEAN ON ME AWARD

Envision:You will recognize Colorado State Representative Leslie Herod and the Mental Health Center of Denver at the annual Envision:You...

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