Colorado Police Officers Under Investigation Over Photos At Elijah McClain Memorial
The police department in Aurora, Colo., is investigating several officers who posed for photographs near the site where Elijah McClain was forcibly arrested as he walked home from a convenience store last summer.
Vanessa Wilson, the interim police chief, announced the investigation Monday night, saying that when she learned about the photos Thursday, she "immediately ordered Internal Affairs to make this investigation their top priority."
The photos came to light after an Aurora police officer reported them to the department's internal affairs unit.
Summarizing that initial report, Wilson said that "multiple Aurora Police officers were depicted in photographs near the site where Elijah McClain died."
Police bodycam footage from the encounter shows McClain pleading with the officers, "I was just going home.
