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Colorado cops fired after photos mocking death of black man surface

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Three Colorado police officers were fired and a fourth resigned after they shared photographs they took of themselves re-enacting a chokehold that officers used to subdue a black man who later died, authorities said on Friday.

Vanessa Wilson, interim chief of police in the Denver suburb of Aurora, called the officers' actions surrounding the death of Elijah McClain, who was unarmed, "reprehensible”...

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