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Deaf man files civil suit against Idaho Springs police, county jail for 2019 arrest BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Eddie Rudd stops at the break spot in Echo Lake on the final day of the EMS bike ride Sept. 24 from Snowmass to Morrison. PHOTOS BY SARA HERTWIG
National EMS Memorial Bike Ride returns to Clear Creek, Jeffco BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Loveland Pass is the Muddy Angels’ highest climb. On Thursday, as the group biked up to the 11,991-foot summit, many of them had to stop and take a breather. They pulled out the dog tags around their necks and looked
at the names engraved upon them — deceased friends and colleagues in emergency medical services. When the support team stopped and asked the cyclists if they wanted to be picked up, they said they were going to keep riding. The Colorado National EMS Memorial Bike Ride returned to Clear Creek and Jefferson counties last week, biking from Frisco to Idaho Springs Thursday. On Friday, the 19 cyclists went up Highway 103, down into Evergreen and concluded in Morrison.
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Junji Sakai sits in the Historic Morrison Church Sept. 24 after finishing the annual EMS bike ride from Snowmass to Morrison.
A deaf man has filed a suit against former Idaho Springs police officer Nicholas Hanning, current ISPD officer Ellie Summers, the City of Idaho Springs and the Clear Creek Board of County Commissioners after he was arrested and jailed following a Sept. 2019 traffic stop. Brady Mistic and his legal team filed the complaint and jury demand on Sept. 17, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The claim states that Mistic was the victim of “unnecessary police force and wrongful incarceration,” and that neither ISPD officers nor jail staff had adequate training or equipment to accommodate him. These circumstances are “likely demonstrative of much larger systematic problems” within the city and jail, the claim states. Both Mistic’s claim and the Idaho Springs Police Department confirm that Hanning and Summers contacted Mistic around 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 17, 2019, in the 1300 block of Miner Street for a reported stop-sign violation. Because Mistic is completely deaf in both ears, he uses American Sign Language to communicate, according to the claim. He cannot lip-read and can only vocalize a few words. Mistic, then 24, attempted to communicate with the officers using SEE MISTIC, P5
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