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Newly hired Rifle Police Officer Kalob Foreman refers to the feeling as getting “Monday-morning quarterbacked to death.”
Throughout late 2020 and early into 2021, the Rifle Police Department was short four officers. Foreman, a 29-year-old former Oklahoma City police officer who joined Rifle’s squad in early June, said this is part of the reason why.
Say an officer makes a split decision on the street that perhaps leads to an unfavorable outcome, and public and political scrutiny ensues.
“Now you’ve got to figure that several attorneys and judges and the community are going to look at that,” he said. “They’re going to spend the next year wondering if you did the right thing in something that you had an eighth of a second time to make that decision.”
No injuries were reported following a collision between a bicyclist and a motor vehicle on Wednesday, a Rifle Police Department official said.
“The young man struck the windshield, but he’s doing fine,” Rifle Police Chief Tommy Klein said. “He never lost consciousness. He was transported to Grand River Hospital by (Colorado River Fire Rescue).”
Klein said the man was biking eastbound on Tripp Drive near West Second Street around 6 p.m. when he collided with a Honda sports utility vehicle heading westbound.
“The vehicle involved just came around the corner and they made impact right around the corner,” Klein said.