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Month in Review | November 2023
Recapping some of the main events in Boulder County, Colorado, America, and the world all within the past month.
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Elijah McClain
Boulder deputy police chief hires legal counsel amid Elijah McClain accusations and escalating dispute
By John Herrick, Boulder Reporting Lab (Via AP Storyshare) A high-profile dispute is brewing in Boulder connected with the ongoing trial over the death of Elijah McClain. Boulder’s deputy police chief, Steve Redfearn, has hired a lawyer in response to…
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IN THE BLUE: Bar none — Dearth of Aurora cop recruits prompts city to advance, hire applicants who test poorly
“That’s really scraping the bottom of the barrel,” said Wayne Cascio, an industrial psychologist and economist at the University of Colorado Denver, who pioneered the test-scoring system used by the department today. “They’re barely qualified to be able to get…
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People have the right to not be killed by the police for a traffic stop
Anger pours through my entire being. In 2014 I had never been to a protest. Then Michael Brown was murdered, and I knew what I was watching on TV was not the whole truth. So I drove to Ferguson and…
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Independent monitor lauds cooperation, criticizes Aurora Police force review board in first report
“We have not seen the degree of self critical analysis that we believe is so important to the process,” the monitor wrote of the department’s Force Review Board. “In addition, it appears that the history of individual officers involved in…
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Who are the Board of Directors of the Aurora Police Association?
Update 9/4/2021: Below we have updated the names of the Board Members, their current employers (most work for the Aurora Police Department, which seems problematic based on the Statement the Aurora Police Association released & the APD’s response), and any…
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Candice Bailey: Not an Activist – an Actionist | The ACTIONISTS Series
UPDATED 2/1/2023 CPR, 1/19/2023 Elijah McClain Death; Trial of Officers In a two-page ruling issued late Wednesday, Adams County District Judge Mark Douglas Warner ordered the two paramedics, Peter Cichuniec and Jeremy Cooper, to be tried together. Former officer Nathan…
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Community Corner – Boulder PD’s Social Media Hypocrisy
Boulder Police Officer Waylon Lolotai is alleged to have an Instagram account, @tacticaltoa, on which he speaks positively about police brutality and violent “use of force Fridays”. This includes his (alleged) comments about an officer punching a man another officer…
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Is Aurora Police Department showing its colors (again)?
A constitutional crisis and civil unrest is taking place in America – amidst a pandemic, but it’s nothing new in our history. As we witness America in crisis, from failing miserably at dealing with a pandemic, to a sitting President…
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Colorado Protests Get The Goods
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Elijah McClain. Their deaths at the hands of police are the latest to shock the collective conscience of our country, and their names have been lifted at protests nationally, internationally, and right here…
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