Discrimination lawsuit tonight. A local hispanic owned abg trekture if you firm is accusinm of having a history of criminating against. We have both sides of the issue. The firm says they have been spending years trying to work with dps on the issue. Say they see no change. And are hoping the courts can step in. To make a difference. Says there is no problem. They have been ignoring our community. Awarding the contracts to mainly male white owned businesses. Even though his firm is qualified. And has a history of districts. The kind of work we have been getting. Out of Denver Public schools. Are restroom remodel projects. If what the new federal lawsuit claim ss true. His firm isnt the only minority owned Small Business missing out on millions of taxpayer dollars. In engineering contracts. Superintendent rejects his claims. We have a transparent, fair, and rigorous process. In awarding contracts. We asked him about the suits claim that only two percent of the contracts were awarded to
They arent saying who died on the motorcycle. We upon dont know tonight if they were wearing helmets or not. Thank you. Its a story you will see on denver 7. Another deputy suspended for inappropriate comments for suicide watch. This 9page letter is pretty disturbing. He tells an inmate to just die. Inappropriate statements in what deputies are taught. This is a look inside crisis intervention training, a 5day 40hour course. Deputies roll play with actors with how to deal with the mentally ill. We are teaching them how to recognize that bad behavior can be mental illness. They are not trained to do this. According to this discipline letter, ryan bosville told an inmate on suicide watch to die. Some saw it happen. What asked what she thought about the comment. She said i figured it wasnt the safest thing to say. He does not recall saying that but admitted to a comment about another inmates mother in the medical unit. This is the first time he has been disciplined during his 9 years with
Hill down to orchard to our left here, and as far east and west on crestline as about two blocks. We have one person dead confirmed. We are not showing the crime scene out of respect for the family. They have not been notified. The sheriffssoffice rstequeed we not show it jayson luber will tell us how to get around that this morning. This is the section closed, smoky hill down to orchard. This is the accident location where daryl is right now. Going west of chambers, thats easy traveling, as ii tower orchard. Those are good alternates to get around that closure. I25 and arapahoe, wrapped up that work. School is starting and a lot more kids are out and about this morning. And weather wise, we are seeing a little shower activity limon. I think these will get out of the area as the sun continues to rise. We can expect temperature wise and condition wise, 90s expected in denver. Very warm conditions. Normally we should be around 86 degrees, so a little above okay. For. A truck almost fully
Checking on your traffic, lets take a look at the map, couple of issues, especially on the side roads here this morning. Well start with eastbound 6th avenue at corona before downing. Its closed down now because of an accident. Denver fire and Denver Police are rerouting traffic through the neighborhood and that will cause delays. Auto pedestrian accident closing down this section of westbound florida right after havana, trying to get over to parker road, right at dayton. Thats oing to be an issue well have to worry about. We also have windy point on highway 285, a car deer accident that way. Rest of the ride looks nice, north, south, east or west, a pretty smooth ride to dia as well. If were heading out there, security wait time at most is 15 minutes. Thats good to hear. That cold front is now moving through the state, bringing our temperatures now. Youre walking out the door to upper 50s, low 60s. A good 15 degrees below normal. Mostly sunny skies at noon. Scattered storms and shower
Of kin not being notified yet. We dont know if it was the suv or motorcycle here at crestline and buckley, but crestline is reopened to go south on buckley from this intersection. Northbound, they are still loading that motorcycle up, the suv still rrmaining in the front yard here. The coroner arrived and they did remove a body from outside a vehicle, so we are who that is. Right now the scene is starting to clean up a little bit. Crime scene investigators are done and were being told in the next few minutes they believe buckley road will be the weather is looking nice to start the day. We have a mix of sun and clouds, some shower activity down to the south. This will eventually clear out throughout the morning hours. Clear conditions. Currently outside Grand Junction 66, 49 in aspen, lower 50s in eagle and denver at 62 right now. As the kids head out today, Denver Public schools are back in session. 66 heading out the door, and it will be hot today, temperatures in the upper 80s to lo