A former Aurora police officer will spend six months under house arrest for failing to stop another officer from pistol-whipping, choking and threatening to kill an unarmed man.
An Arapahoe County jury in April convicted Francine Martinez of failure to intervene, a misdemeanor, in connection to the 2021 beating of Kyle Vinson by fellow former Aurora police Officer John Haubert.
Martinez was the first officer in Colorado convicted by a jury of the charge created under the landmark police accountability bill passed after the 2020 George Floyd protests.