Hashim Coates
01/16/2025
Anderson Moves to Aurora
Tay Anderson has, unfortunately, moved to Aurora from Denver hoping for a "do-over", after having zero political prospects to run for anything in Denver.
I greeted Anderson with my "outdoor" voice last Monday night, after our city council meeting, to remind him of his horrific leadership on the Denver Public School (DPS) Board where he led the effort to pull Denver police officers out of DPS high schools.
Austin Lyle was a 17-year-old Aurora student who, after a weapons charge, was expelled from Overland High School.
Lyle was allowed to enroll in East High School in Denver under a "Safety Plan" that required that he be searched every morning before he attended classes.
Without armed police officers available, it was now up to unarmed school administrators to pat him down to see if he had a weapon. A handgun was discovered on Lyle while he was being patted down and he used it to shoot the school administrators, wounding both of them, before fleeing the campus and then turning the handgun on himself, taking his own life.
I want to remind, not just Tay Anderson, but all of Aurora, that Aurora resident Austin Lyle would probably be with us today if not for the "anti-police leadership" of Tay Anderson.
Anderson was also censured by his school board colleagues for "Inappropriate behavior," barred from participating with the Denver Chapter of Black Lives Matter because of multiple allegations of sexual assault and subsequently he withdrew from his re-election to the Denver Public School Board and later, abandoned his campaign for the State House of Representatives in Denver.
I will have a moment of silence, during our next council meeting, in memory of Austin Lyle.
In the photo is Tay Anderson during a meeting of the Denver Public School Board.
