Cops fired over photos tied to Elijah McClain not reinstated

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


By COLLEEN SLEVIN
14 minutes ago

DENVER (AP) — Three suburban Denver officers fired over a photo reenacting a neckhold like the one police used on Elijah McClain before the 23-year-old Black man died in 2019 will not get their jobs back, officials said Tuesday.

In decisions upholding the terminations of Aurora Officers Erica Marrero, Kyle Dittrich and Jason Rosenblatt, the Aurora Civil Service Commission noted that the photo, which became public about a month after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, caused pain for McClain’s family and hurt already-strained relations between police and the community.

McClain’s death drew renewed attention last year amid the national reckoning over police brutality and racial injustice, prompting investigations by the city, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI.

Police Chief Vanessa Wilson fired the three officers last year over two photos taken at a memorial to McClain two months after his death. Marrero, Dittrich and another officer who resigned, Jaron Jones, are shown smiling in one photo taken on Oct. 20, 2019, and in another, Jones has his arm around Dittrich’s neck in a fake neckhold like the one used on McClain.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/civil-service-us-news-aurora-denver-1af5af4602754ebb05ebfdde8d28bc6e

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1. If only we could get Elijah McCain back.

The world needs more young men who play the violin for cats at the shelter than it does these officers, fired or not.

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2. That entire story makes me so angry

some very dark thoughts run through my head as what should have happened to these 3 "cops"