Dear Editor:

I feel a special closeness to “superhero” John Lewis because of similar age and very different but interrelated careers. We know a lot now about his outstanding fight for civil Rights and I’ll try to show how my police, sheriff and public safety career paralleled and interconnected with his by more than just time frame and why now really can be a history changing time — long overdue.

Major cities were burning in 1968 when I joined the Boulder Police Department and it began a s...