Christian Glass Killing Update: Inside Indictment of Two Cops

Journalists use the phrase “news dump” to describe a public agency’s release of potentially controversial material late on a Friday afternoon or just before a holiday — times when few people are paying attention to headlines.

The bulletin from the 5th Judicial District DA Heidi McCollum’s office about the November 22 indictment by a grand jury of two law enforcement officers from the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy Andrew Buen and Sergeant Kyle Gould, in connection with the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Christian Glass certainly fits this definition. The email blast went out at 10:47 p.m. November 23, on the eve of Thanksgiving weekend, after the last local TV newscasts for the evening had already concluded. The result was extremely limited coverage on Thanksgiving, one…