Say It Loud

True enough, says Sulton, who's still a practicing Catholic. But for now, she believes "service is the rent you pay to live on this earth" and says she's not done paying her dues.

Sulton recently filed a class-action suit on behalf of black employees of Hertz at DIA. That suit alleges that Hertz discriminated against black employees and customers and that when black employees complained, some were singled out for suspensions and others were fired. (Hertz vice president for corporate affairs Joe Russo says the company "categorically asserts that there has been no racial discrimination at our Denver facility.") Sulton is also embroiled in the Tyrone Braxton suit, which shows signs of turning into another PR debacle for her. The Denver DA's office declined to file criminal charges in the matter, citing insufficient evidence, and Assistant Denver District Attorney Chuck Lepley, who handled the investigation, challenges Sulton's claim that he never interviewed the four women.

"When he said this was the most thorough sexual-harassment investigation he's ever done, it sent chills down my spine," Sulton says. But Lepley says he took two statements from each woman that ranged from nine to twenty pages.

The Hertz and Braxton cases pale, though, under the shadow of the Webb case. That volatile confrontation has given birth to its own series of civil suits. First Sulton filed a federal suit on Webb's behalf against the police department, alleging brutality. Baca and Steffes-DeHerrera have filed wrongful-death civil suits against Webb and his family. "I think suing the city is outrageous," Steffes-DeHerrera says of Sulton's action against the police department. "It's like they dance on [Ron's] grave. They can't admit they had anything to do with it."

But Sulton says she has nothing to apologize for in her handling of the Webb case. "I didn't misrepresent the facts," she says. "I told them the facts. Why get mad at me?"

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