SALT LAKE CITY As a federal probation officer, Steven Kelly crisscrossed the state to check on defendants facing criminal charges.
He used to recount to colleagues how police routinely pulled him over on suspicion of DWB driving while Black.
Each time, the officers demeanor changed when they learned the late Kelly was a sworn law enforcement officer, his friend and former U.S. Magistrate Judge Sam Alba recalled Tuesday at the start of a three-day symposium on the use of force by police, hosted by the Utah State Bar.
Kelly s experience isn t unique, Alba and fellow attorneys noted Tuesday. But for others, a traffic stop can end much less peacefully, like it did most recently for 20-year-old Daunte Wright, killed by police in a Minneapolis suburb; and U.S. Army officer Caron Nazario, who is suing a Virginia police department after he was pepper-sprayed and knocked to the ground.
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