Overview
- Durango Police Chief Brice Current requested the CBI investigation into potential state criminal law violations, with results to be sent to the 6th Judicial District Attorney.
- The FBI is reviewing the incident because it happened on federal property, according to Durango city officials.
- Video shows an unidentified officer knocking a phone from 57-year-old Franci Stagi, grabbing her by the hair, placing her in a chokehold, and pushing her down a grassy slope; she was not arrested.
- The confrontation occurred around 6:15 a.m. on Oct. 28 outside the ICE field office during protests over the detention of Fernando Jaramillo-Solano and his 12- and 15-year-old children.
- Advocates say the family has an active asylum case and the father has no criminal history, while Gov. Jared Polis criticized the operation’s lack of transparency and a public meeting was scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday.