DENVER — The harrowing set of photos taken by a Denver Post photographer that captured a fatal shooting unfolding on Saturday did not make it onto the front page of the newspaper the next day. That was not because Helen H. Richardson, a Post staff photographer, was dawdling, but because she spent three hours after the shooting at the Denver Police Department headquarters being questioned as a witness. “It’s 4 o’clock and I have a deadline,” she recalled telling the police after the shooting. Ms. Richardson was near Civic Center Park in Denver on Saturday afternoon steps away from the fatal shooting, which left an attendee of a “Patriot Muster” rally dead and a private security guard, hired by a television news station, in police custody for a first-degree murder investigation. Ms. Richardson had been photographing the far-right rally while a far-left counterprotest took place nearby.

Source: New York Times October 13, 2020 03:33 UTC