Tag: chokehold
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Colorado health care organization, security officers face lawsuit after alleged chokehold death
Four hospital security officers and the health care conglomerate Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado are facing a wrongful death lawsuit after security allegedly choked a man to death in a Pueblo hospital lobby last year. An ambulance transported Mathew Haskel Jones, 36, to Centura St. Mary-Corwin Hospital on Feb. 10, 2021, for gout treatment. Security officers…
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Northern Colorado police officer charged with assault for putting man in chokehold
A Greeley police officer was charged Monday with felony second-degree assault for putting a man in a chokehold during an arrest, the Weld County District Attorney’s Office announced. Officer Kenneth Amick, 48, will face the charge in Weld District Court on Aug. 23. Amick, who has worked for the Greeley Police Department since 2006, has…