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Policing & Incarceration

Yessenia Reyes, 17, stands under a tree and poses for a photograph on the afternoon of Friday, May 9, 2025, near Berkeley Lake in Denver, Colo., near her home. Photo by Armando Geneyro / Special to The Colorado Trust

In the fall of 2023, Yessenia Reyes, 15 at the time, was sitting in her freshman video production class at Denver’s North High School when a police officer showed up at the door and called her name.  

The officer told Reyes she was under arrest. He handcuffed her and walked her to the principal’s office.  

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