'A crime against humanity': Officers fired over photo reenacting Elijah McClain chokehold

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'We are ashamed, we are sickened, and we are angry,' Aurora, Colorado Interim Police Chief Vanessa Wilson said. The officers may not have committed a crime, but the photographs are 'a crime against humanity and decency,' she added.

After an internal investigation, Wilson fired Rosenblatt and two of the officers who appeared in the photos for conduct unbecoming of an officer. The officer who reenacted the chokehold in the photos resigned this week.

Facing increasing pressure, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis last week ordered the state attorney general to reopen McClain’s case after prosecutors last year cleared the officers who confronted him. Two officers, including the one that put McClain in a chokehold, are still on the force as authorities look into possible criminal charges. Federal officials also are looking into a possible civil rights investigation.

“For her, it was just devastating to see that people were mocking the murder of her son,” Newman added. A forensic pathologist could not determine what exactly led to McClain’s death but said physical exertion during the confrontation likely contributed.More than 2 million sign 'Justice For Elijah McClain' petition nearly a year after his death

Police body-camera video shows an officer getting out of his car, approaching McClain and saying, “Stop right there. Stop. Stop. ... I have a right to stop you because you’re being suspicious.”

 

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I heard of gangs that people had to do this or that to get into. What kind of deplorable society are these cops trying to get into, by killing someone, then taking a picture at their memorial?

Little bully boys, that never grew-up

That's how white ppl behave nowadays

watch these scumbags go to the next county and get hired as cops again.🤨👎🏻

Trump said, do me a favor, don’t be nice to them, I’d like to treat them like the good olds days, like to punch them in the face

brieannafrank There is no bottom

Killer KKKops

What aren't they charged and arrested? They've been fired .... Now they will be hired by another department.

How many people have they killed and mocked? They need to be investigated, the entire department.

They murdered that young man, simply because they could !

He should get more then fired!!!

You can't fix stupid. Ever. The internet insures the world is less of it by allowing stupid to be showcased and documented so the Darwin algorithm can filter out the gene pool before it regresses into Idiocracy.

Sick nasty M.F ‼️

How do these people get Badges?

Sons of bitches!

You are ashamed and sickened that you fools lost your job, not about what you did! If you weren't racists to begin with, you wouldn't have done it or laugh about it. You 3 should never be allowed to wear a badge again!

More Unemployables doing dumb crap !

Only homicidal cops are allowed to rush to judgment, according to police unions.

This is why All Cops Are Bastards. This is why we call them Pigs. They are trash.

Every mayor should crush current police unions. “The Aurora Police Association, the union for officers, called it “a rush to judgment.” It said on Facebook that the investigation took nine days, while a standard internal affairs case takes months.”

The problem is that for far too long cops have gotten away with all types of bad behavior. Immunity and restrictive disciplinary rules and procedures have created these monsters. eliminatemonsters

3 little pigs

Last

So was the department's violent attack on peaceful protesters playing violin at a vigil for man your department killed in cold blood AuroraPD ...tell me how many of the people who murdered ElijahMcClain have been arrested /charged bc until that happens you are ALL complicit

INEXCUSABLE. HORRIFIC MISUSE OF POLICE AUTHORITY. MURDER.

🤮🤮🤮

They did commit a crime. They killed him.

If you fight with police and die of physical exertion....it should be LAW in all 50 states that the cause of death be listed as a suicide!

Demented individuals 😡

They don’t care! Never have, never will!!

Have you interviewed the Macys employee victim yet or only race baiting one way a couple of cops clowning around?

America has fallen taking pictures is now a reason to be fired , Civil war at this point is only a matter of time

I want to support police but this type of behavior is ridiculous and has to stop and it is going to.

Oh good lord get over it people.

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