Re: Denver DA won’t file charges against deputies in jail death of Michael Marshall, Jan. 22 news story.
Denver jail inmate Michael Marshall died nine days after a struggle with deputies last November. District Attorney Mitch Morrissey says he will not press charges against the deputies. (7News)
After reading the very descriptive details in The Post of the incident between prisoner Michael Marshall and the four Denver jail deputies, I find it extremely hard to believe they found it necessary to hold him face-down on the floor for more than 13 minutes. This was a mentally disadvantaged human being, not a hardened, dangerous, armed criminal. He was scared to death!
Certainly, by comparison, if Marshall had been walking down a city street and was attacked from behind by four thugs who held him down in this manner and he died as a result of it, the thugs would have been charged with and found guilty of murder.
More power to the family of Michael Marshall in their quest for justice.
Julia Akin, Parker
This letter was published in the Jan. 26 edition.
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