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Cop who stopped Elijah McClain fired over response to photos

by Associated Press
| July 3, 2020 2:27 PM

AURORA, Colo. (AP) — One of the white officers who stopped Elijah McClain was fired over photos showing colleagues reenacting the chokehold used on the Black man before he died last year, authorities said Friday. After getting a text message with the images, he replied, “haha."

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