Denver Cops File For Injunction To Stop Mandatory Vaccines

By Brian Maass, CBS Denver:

DENVER (CBS4)– Seven Denver police officers are asking a judge to issue a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order preventing the City of Denver from forcing them to either receive a vaccine against COVID-19 or face termination.

In court documents filed yesterday and obtained by CBS4, the seven officers- Jonathan Christian, Dewayne Rodgers, Bart Stark, Rich Ziegler, Nick Elliott, David Curtis and Les Tucker- contend that Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and his Department of Public Health and Environment do not have the legal authority to enforce the Aug. 2 order. That order gave city employees until Sept. 30 to prove they have been vaccinated or potentially be fired.

In their request, the officer’s attorney wrote, “The clear, immediate threat of irreparable harm to the Plantiffs regarding compliance with an unlawful public health order which mandates a medical procedure, including the punitive nature of the ‘reasonable accomodations’- coupled with the strong public interest of retaining adequate numbers of police officers- weigh heavily in favor of the requested injunctive relief.” The legal action goes on to say the Mayor and public health department cannot ‘mandate an experimental inoculation as a condition of both private and public employment’.

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