A Colorado city council member asked a simple question at a July 2023 public meeting, not knowing it would take more than two years to find out the answer.

Lakewood City Councilor Anita Springsteen called on the city’s police to release body camera footage showing why officers shot and killed a teenage girl months earlier.

“It may very well be that there is absolutely no question about what had to happen there, but I think the city should be forthcoming, in that case, about what occurred,” she said to the council. “I mean, what’s going on?”

She was skeptical because police in the Denver suburb had initially provided differing narratives of the March incident, which began after a resident reported a mail carrier had been robbed at gunpoint in front of her home by two teenage girls.

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