Several Aurora police officers have joined the ranks of the unemployed after taking and sharing (by email) photographs reenacting the choking of Elijah McClain at a memorial set up for his remembrance. Why the officers decided to do this is unclear, and it appears the department determined it to be sufficiently mean-spirited and outrageous as to demonstrate unfitness on the part of the officers who participated.
The incongruous thing here is that the department has yet to take disciplinary action for the actual incident that led up to Elijah McClain's departure from this life. As best I can discern from any of the reports, he wasn't breaking any laws, and the officers basically roughed him up because he was odd. He died after being subdued by a chokehold, and after a sedative had been injected by EMS staff responding to the scene. The exact causative role of the police activity is still under investigation, but it does seem evident at this point that the foundation for the stop, detention and use of force was very shaky.
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/07/03/3-aurora-police-officers-fired-over-elijah-mcclain-photo-scandal/
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