Aurora lawmakers flee council chamber as police-shooting protesters return to city hall

Aurora Sentinel: After a raucous meeting last month where protesters heckled and shouted down Aurora City Council members, council conservatives on Monday tried and failed to stop the same group from speaking publicly about the fatal shooting of Kilyn Lewis by Aurora police.

The crowd of dozens — whom one council member denounced as “terrorists” — filed in silently before the start of the council’s biweekly meeting, hands raised in homage to the gesture that the unarmed 37-year-old made at the moment he was fatally shot by police officer Michael Dieck.

The demonstrators sat through the first public comment period, when members of the public are given the opportunity to address the council regarding items not on the night’s agenda.

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