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Hanning arrest affidavit details body-camera content BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
ing track. Since then, he’s been taking trips — mostly with family members — and recording his progress on a spreadsheet. While he’s not the first to visit every county, his fellow adventurers have speculated that he might be the first to finish the quest in Colorado and at such a high altitude. Before he flew back to Tennessee on July 14, he drove down from Loveland Pass to visit the Clear
While body camera footage is forthcoming, an arrest affidavit for an Idaho Springs police officer includes details of the footage, including how that officer Tasered an unarmed 75-year-old man. Nicholas Hanning, a former Idaho Springs officer, has been charged with third-degree assault following an investigation of the incident. The arrest affidavit was made public following his court appearance on July 13. On Friday, the Idaho Springs Police Department stated Hanning had been terminated. Hanning had been with ISPD for three years. Michael Clark, who lives in Idaho Springs, is still hospitalized six weeks after the May 30 incident. His attorney has stated he’s had heart complications, a stroke and a burst appendix. After an internal investigation by ISPD and subsequent investigation by the District Attorney’s office and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, investigators submitted the arrest affidavit and issued a warrant for Hanning’s arrest on July 7. He turned himself in and was released on $2,000 bond. The affidavit, which was submitted by CBI officer Joseph Cahill, describes what transpires in approximately one minute, between the police knocking on Clark’s apartment door and Hanning deploying his Taser.
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Brian O’Connor of Cookeville, Tennessee, crosses the Clear Creek County line, making it the final U.S. county or equivalent that he has PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN visited.
Saving the best for last Tennessee man visiting every U.S. county completes his quest in Clear Creek BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Brian O’Connor completed a decades-long quest at nearly 12,000 feet above sea level last week. Around 10 a.m. on July 14, O’Connor crossed the Clear Creek
County line at the top of Loveland Pass, completing his goal to visit all 3,143 counties and county equivalents in the United States. “I could talk to anyone (from the U.S.) and say, `I’ve been in your county,” he said. O’Connor, a math professor who lives in Cookeville, Tennessee, started his quest in 1970, when he and a friend spent a month traveling around the country. However, it wasn’t until a few years later, when he bought a road atlas with every county listed, that he started keep-
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