“You know we have cameras in that town. You can’t get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing,” Milliman said to Elser, according to Ring doorbell footage of the Sept. 27 encounter viewed by The Colorado Sun.
Then on Oct. 15, more than two weeks after Milliman showed up at her door, she got an email from Chief Bret Cottrell, congratulating her on her detective work and announcing that Columbine police had dismissed the charges against her.
“After reviewing the evidence you have provided (nicely done btw), we have voided the summons we issued,” Cottrell wrote to Elser in an email.
https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/flock-camera-police-colorado-columbine-valley/
Result: nothing
https://coloradosun.com/2026/03/12/opinion-colorado-automatic-license-plate-readers-legislation/
And because it’s an older white woman, it makes the news. For a young black man, it’d be another July.
For a black man, the charges would likely still be pending.
But they don’t press charges when police summarily execute someone.
Really? He wouldn’t already be full of holes, or at best in jail?
Of course, since a black man would have been driving right at the cops. They’d have had no choice but to shoot him to death in self defense through the car’s side window.
For a poor Hispanic family struggling to pay rent, they would’ve been sent to ICE detention until they proved their innocence
Then … she got an email from Chief Bret Cottrell, congratulating her on her detective work and announcing that Columbine police had dismissed the charges against her.
What a feelgood story! /s
I assume she has a lawsuit? She should at least claim compensation for her detective work.
“I guess this is a shock to you, but I am telling you, this is a lock. One hundred percent. No doubt,” Milliman (the cop at her door) said.
“We had to basically exonerate ourselves,” she said. She never received an explanation from anyone at the department or an apology.
