Poster from rally for Paul Castaway
On this past Sunday, Paul Castaway, a 35-year-old Native American, was brutally shot and killed by Denver police.
This much we know.
Castaway's mother, Lynn Eagle Feather, says she called the police for help on Sunday after her son threatened her with a knife, telling cops he was mentally ill. Police allege Castaway charged at them with the knife, but according to witnesses and a surveillance video seen by a local reporter, Castaway was holding the knife to his own neck when he was shot four times.
Speaking to Indian Country Today, Eagle Feather said the police shooting was racially motivated.
Castaway's mother, Lynn Eagle Feather, says she called the police for help on Sunday after her son threatened her with a knife, telling cops he was mentally ill. Police allege Castaway charged at them with the knife, but according to witnesses and a surveillance video seen by a local reporter, Castaway was holding the knife to his own neck when he was shot four times.
Speaking to Indian Country Today, Eagle Feather said the police shooting was racially motivated.
"I want justice for my son. I want those cops to be reprimanded. These Denver cops love to kill Natives. They love to kill people of color here,” she told the network.
Immediately after the shooting, though, police began telling key lies about what happened that have already been proven not to be true.
First off, we have this.
Pretty nefarious, right? It never happened.
Below is a photo of Paul's mother, who wasn't stabbed at all, at a protest rally for him 24 hours later.
No lie, though, is more nefarious than why police said they had to kill Paul. They said that he charged at them with a knife, but according to reporters who've seen the video of what happened, this is a lie as well.
The manager of Capital City mobile home park at 4501 W. Kentucky Ave. has the video. He wouldn’t give it to FOX31 Denver, but he did show it to reporter Tammy Vigil.
It shows Paul Castaway, 35, coming up from behind a white mobile home, through a black iron fence onto the street and around a wooden fence, which is a dead end.
He then turned back around onto the street with a knife to his neck the whole time, when an officer shoots him. The video seems to not match what police say happened.