Fort Collins, Colorado is about to face the consequences of the bad actions of a police officer. Colorado people reports that both the city of Fort Collins and one of its police officers are being sued for allegedly falsely arresting DUI.
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Five people were arrested for DUI between June 2021 and April 2022 accusing Fort Collins police officer Jason Haferman of falsifying arrests. Court documents show a timeline of possible false arrests from November 2020.
People assumed Haferman did everything wrong when he charged and then arrested them for a DUI, from muting or turning off his body camera to improperly performing a degree test. awake at the scene. The lawsuits claim that although blood tests showed no alcohol in their system, they are still arrested.
Haferman was initially put under surveillance after one of the five individuals in the lawsuit, Derrick Groves, public announcement intends to sue Haferman over his arrest in the summer of 2022. Bush accused Haferman pulled him back after observing his Tesla over-adjusting while on Autopilot. Haferman mistook the overcorrection for drunkenness and arrested Groves.
Things get worse when looking at other arrests. An individual claims Haferman knowingly closed his patrol car on his leg so he had to go to the hospital for a blood test after the ventilator came back negative. ONEOthers accused Haferman of forcing him to take blood tests and lying about aspects of the arrest in his report, aspects where footage of his body contradicted. Still aAnother arrest included an elderly man who was pulled over by Haferman for speeding and mistook his slow body movements for influence. The man suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, which explains his bodily movements. In all arrests when blood tests were taken, no alcohol was found in anyone’s body systems.
While Fort Collins police opened an investigation into Haferman’s conduct, which led to his resignation in December 2022, one of the men arrested — Harris Elias — said. His behavior is part of a larger problem that needs to be addressed. Elias was mistakenly arrested twice for DUI, the other time by an officer from a nearby community.
“The fact that it happened twice is really shocking. It’illustrates a major problem with how drunken driving laws are enforced in this community.” I said Colorado people.
