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   The Colorado police officers who took disturbing photos at the memorial   
   site where Elijah McClain was placed in a police chokehold and later died   
   have all been terminated from the Aurora Police Department, interim police   
   chief Vanessa Wilson announced Friday.   
      
   Four officers were involved in the incident. Officer Jaron Jones resigned   
   earlier this week.   
      
   Wilson announced Friday that the remaining officers involved -- Erica   
   Marrero, Kyle Dittrich and Jason Rosenblatt -- have all been fired.   
      
   MORE: Colorado police officer in troubling photo near Elijah McClain   
   memorial resigns   
      
   Rosenblatt did not appear in the photos, but was terminated after he   
   responded "haha" when he was texted the images. He also did not report   
   them. Rosenblatt was the only officer involved in the photos who actually   
   responded to the August 2019 arrest that ended up in McClain's death.   
      
   "We're ashamed, we're sickened and we're angry," Wilson said in a news   
   conference about the now-former officers' behavior.   
      
   "While the allegations of this internal affairs case are not criminal, it   
   is a crime against humanity and decency," she said, calling their actions   
   "reprehensible."   
      
   "It shows a lack of morals, values and integrity and a judgment that I can   
   no longer trust to allow them to wear this badge," she said.   
      
   Wilson also revealed the photos, which were taken on Oct. 20, 2019,   
   publicly for the first time. Not only are the officers smiling at the site   
   of the tragedy, one of them shows them recreating the carotid control hold   
   that other officers put on McClain prior to his death.   
      
   "All the officers involved should be fired, and they should be fired and   
   not able to be hired in any other department where they will continue to   
   kill," Mari Newman, an attorney representing the McClain family, said at a   
   press conference after the news of the firings.   
      
   MORE: Public pressure mounts to revisit 2019 death of Black man while in   
   custody   
      
   Newman said she expected a civil suit would be filed.   
      
   "We've got a police department and a police association that is rotten to   
   the core," she added.   
      
   McClain was a 23-year-old unarmed Black man who died days after he was put   
   in a chokehold and sedated by police when walking home in Aurora after   
   buying iced tea at a local corner store on Aug. 24, 2019, according to his   
   family attorney.   
      
   The Aurora Police Association called the internal investigation leading to   
   the termination of the officers over the photos a "rush to judgement."   
      
   "The appearance of impropriety is obvious. It is extremely concerning to   
   the Aurora Police Association that Interim Chief Wilson is willing to   
   disregard the rights of our members and due process that is afforded to   
   all police employees," the union said in a statement.   
      
   The union added that they think Wilson is "unfit for the position that she   
   currently holds and should be dropped from the final slate of candidates   
   to be the next Chief of the Aurora Police Department."   
      
   ABC News' Bill Hutchinson contributed to this report.   
      
   Colorado police officers fired for recreating chokehold in photos at   
   Elijah McClain memorial originally appeared on abcnews.go.com   
      
   https://www.yahoo.com/gma/colorado-police-officers-recreated-chokehold-   
   photos-elijah-mcclain-204000983--abc-news-topstories.html   
      
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