'At the last community meeting, we didn't even have the opportunity to know he was your sole finalist.'
After the Aurora City Council approved Todd Chamberlain as the new police chief, a crowd of a couple dozen protesters erupted into chants of"95 days" to signify the amount of time that's passed since Kilyn Lewis was shot and killed by police.},{ "name":"Editor Picks", "component":"17242653", "insertPoint":"4", "requiredCountToDisplay":"1", "watchElement":".
"This is a travesty. No one was involved? No community meetings? Nothing? At the last community meeting, we didn't even have the opportunity to know he was your sole finalist," Anderson said."When we see an individual hopping from place to place to place, hoping he can get a job as the chief of police, is Aurora truly going to be the city that says, 'come on over here.
Lewis, 37, was shot by APD SWAT officers while trying to arrest him as a suspect of a shooting near the intersection of 48th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard on May 5 that left a man hospitalized with multiple gunshot wounds. Officers shot Lewis while yelling at him to get on the ground; right before Lewis was shot, he yelled back"I don't have nothing" with his hands up.
"When we talk about an individual who was overseeing an officer who was called the 'N word,' left a piece of fried chicken on his desk with watermelon slices, is that the chief of police Aurora needs?" Anderson said."Not no, but hell no."Councilwoman Françoise Bergan defended Chamberlain from the racist LAPD incident before council voted, saying that"he had just gotten .
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