Some community members felt that using the chances of winning a case to decide whether to pursue criminal charges was unsatisfactory reasoning.
“The decision being based on whether or not this is winnable in court as opposed to whether or not this was justice, that’s deeply troubling to me because that tells me we don’t share the same standard of justice as I would’ve hoped,” Kamau Allen, a community organizer with Together Colorado, said.
“I wanted to share that because as a community we see something like this, we lose a community member or family member or a friend under circumstances like this, and because we have a different standard of justice, the trust that we have in the police dies, and because of the decision that was made, the trust that we have in your office also fades away.”
