One Utah police shooting resulted in charges for officer in 2020, but not from the state
Montezuma County Sheriff s Office; Family of Fordell Hill (via i The Salt Lake Tribune /i )
Former Montezuma County Sheriff s Office (Colorado) Sgt. Edward Oxley; Fordell Hill
By: Sam Stecklow (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Posted at 5:32 PM, Mar 01, 2021
and last updated 2021-03-01 19:47:03-05
SAN JUAN COUNTY, Utah â The only officer charged in connection with a police shooting in Utah last year â when the numbers reached a record high â wasnât from the state. The shooting didnât happen last year, and the officer wasnât charged with killing the man,
The only officer charged in connection with a police shooting in Utah last year when the numbers reached a record high wasn’t from the state. The shooting didn’t happen last year. And the officer wasn’t charged with killing the man.
This 2018 case involves a Colorado deputy, who now faces charges for firing through his windshield during a rolling shootout with men in an old Ford Tempo.
While no video footage exists of the chase or shooting, a
Salt Lake Tribune review of police reports and interviews investigators conducted with the officer and a person in the other car offer an unusually detailed look at this chaotic case.
The tension between border town police and Navajos is real. And these people are trying to change that.
Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission says conflicts stretch back to the 1840s.
(Courtesy of Bob Fitch Photography Archive, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries) Police officers with helmets and batons on a road near the Navajo protest march in Farmington, New Mexico, 1974. Tension between police and Native people have gone on for decades.
By Sam Stecklow | Updated: 3:36 p.m.
It started with Oxley pulling over a car because of a broken tail light.
Oxley is now expected to go on trial in April, charged with misconduct, not for the 2018 killing, but for his actions during the pursuit.
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