The Denver Post: Burning outrage. Disruption of public meetings. Officials’ attempts to clamp down.

As that pattern has played out in Aurora over the last year, the City Council has struggled at times to maintain decorum inside — and occasionally outside — its chamber. Last week brought the latest attempt in Colorado’s third-largest city to tighten its rules for public participation as it tries to manage what has become a highly combustible and disruptive atmosphere, spurred by the 2024 police killing of an unarmed Black man.

The council voted 6-4 on May 5 to limit speakers at the lectern to one at a time, with exceptions for children, those needing interpretive help and people with physical disabilities. A second — and more legally dubious — proposal to forbid photography or the recording of videos in an area close to the dais was withdrawn at the last moment.

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