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Activists demand firing of Aurora police chief during overnight ‘sit-in’ at Aurora City Hall

AURORA | A group of community activists dominated Monday’s City Council meeting for nearly five hours, mostly demanding the firing of the city’s police chief — and then continued in the city hall lobby until almost 3 a.m. Tuesday. At the end of the nine-hours of passionate speeches, vulgar rants, disruption and clever entendres, it […]

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EDITORIAL: Grand jury indictment against APD officer reflects larger transparency problem

The Aurora police department’s greatest impediment to restoring badly needed public trust is a consistent and pervasive lack of transparency and candor as officers carry out duties, and too often become the center of some crisis. The grand jury indictment this week of Aurora police officer Matthew Neely on murder charges in connection with the […]