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Video shows deputies brutalizing resident after entering apartment without a warrant

On November 1, three Custer County Law Enforcement Officers entered Clint Seifert’s apartment at Celesta Vista Apartments in Westcliffe without a warrant. The encounter escalated over an eight-minute timeframe and ended with the tackling, beating, and arresting of Seifert.  The Officer’s version of the events was filed with the courts in an Amended Arrest Warrant Affidavit a week later, on November 7. The affidavit states that Deputy Robert Hunter was dispatched to 109 South Adams Blvd., along with Sergeant Steve Konegni (now a school board member) and Deputy Phillip Ditto. The officers claim they were there on a welfare check and heard yelling and possibly walls inside the apartment being knocked down. After Seifert opened the door, they stated he was in an agitated state.…