The on-again, off-again firing of two Denver cops who misled investigators about the 2009 brutal beating of Michael DeHerrera outside a LoDo bar is on again. Officer Devin Sparks and Cpl. Randy Murr have no business wearing blue, the city’s Civil Service Commission ruled Monday.
Thank goodness. Is that the end of this long-running saga? Only if Sparks and Murr decline to appeal to district court. And they’ve been so persistent it’s possible they feel they’ve actually been mistreated.
Sorry, they haven’t been. They portrayed DeHerrera as the aggressor in the confrontation when that was patently not the case. They lied, in short, not realizing the incident had been filmed.
Police officers wield tremendous power, and if they can’t be trusted to tell the truth about their interactions with the public, then they are of no value to the force.
Indeed, they are a menace.
They need to resign themselves to finding another career, and move on with life.
