In a sudden turn of events late Thursday afternoon, the Aurora Pride parade is back on for Sunday in the city’s downtown.
Protesters stand outside the Aurora Branch Court at the Public Safety Center on Indian Trail Thursday in support of Aurora Pride, organizers of the Pride Parade. The organization was inside at a hearing to decide if the city of Aurora's revocation of the group's parade permit for Sunday should stand. Aurora Pride's appeal was denied, however in a turn of events late Thursday afternoon the security issue with the parade was solved and the parade is back on for Sunday.
On Wednesday, the city revoked the special event permit for the Aurora Pride group to hold the parade, saying not enough police officers had signed up for overtime or extra-duty shifts to provide adequate security for the event.But around 5:30 p.m. Thursday, the city announced it has reinstated Aurora Pride’s permit for the parade.
In a statement, city officials said, “While a series of unfortunate events may have led us on this path, we hope this course will continue to be paved with a focus on inclusivity, collaboration and compromise for this year’s Pride Parade.” Fee said organizers asked if they could use an outside, private security company to staff the parade during initial planning meetings, but were told they had to use Aurora police officers.
After Aurora Pride asked that any law enforcement officers interested in marching in the parade participate without service weapons and out of uniform, several officers dropped out of participating, Fee said. “You should resist the temptation to conflate the individual police officer’s decisions not to sign up for this particular overtime assignment with the government of the city of Aurora in the form of its police department who informs a special events coordinator of what can and cannot be done,” Murphey said.Whitfield said he did not reach out to any other police departments to see if they could provide officers to volunteer for the parade.
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