Grand Junction Police Wondered Allowed Whether They Were Committing Crime While Destroying Homeless Camp: Probe

Grand Junction Police Wondered Allowed Whether They Were Committing Crime While Destroying Homeless Camp: Probe

Statements attributed to three former Grand Junction police officers in an internal investigation show they expressed degrees of regret over their actions May 3 at a local transient camp, and that at least one of them that day wondered aloud whether he was committing a crime, according to documents obtained by The Daily Sentinel.

"Isn't this criminal mischief?" Joseph Mulcahy asked his two colleagues as they moved through a Grand Junction transient camp known as The Point. Mulcahy's partner, Phillip Van Why, recalled Mulcahy asking that question May 3, when Van Why was later interviewed during the department's internal probe of the incident, according to the documents.

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