In the late summer of 1899, an evening of drunken revelry in lower downtown Denver turned deadly for a dedicated police officer. Thomas Clifford, a 46-year-old male of White/Caucasian descent, was a respected officer with the Denver Police Department. On the night of August 13th, he responded to a disturbance involving three disruptive and intoxicated U.S. Army soldiers who had been ejected from a saloon. What should have been a routine intervention to disarm the men quickly escalated into a fat
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