9NEWS: A Denver Police sergeant insisted that injuries to concertgoers were “very minor,” and a city leader joked about concertgoers wearing helmets after a hailstorm pelted thousands of people gathered for a Louis Tomlinson concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater in June, requiring medics to treat more than a hundred people.

The text messages were part of a public records request issued by 9NEWS in the days after the storm. Denver Arts and Venues, which operates the amphitheater, refused to release the records, claiming the city doesn’t maintain public records on employee’s private cell phones. 9NEWS challenged that decision in court.

In October, a judge ruled the text messages were subject to public records laws and that the messages were wrongfully withheld, ordering their release.

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