David Lane has been a civil rights attorney for 40 years and is a partner with the Denver law firm Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP
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Guest commentary: Bill of Rights exists to prevent what we’re seeing in Portland
Arrested people have a right to be taken to court after jail, not a dungeon in some undisclosed federal building. Their families have a right to be told where their...

Guest commentary: Qualified immunity is killing civil rights
If we want our civil rights to mean anything, the doctrine of qualified immunity has to be eliminated.

Guest commentary: Want to curb police brutality? Change the law
Following the Constitution is hard, but if you can’t do it, turn in your badge and gun. A change in the law is needed to change police behavior.