Editorial: How an Aurora SWAT unit failed to safely arrest Kilyn Lewis warrants explanation

The Aurora Sentinel: Rightfully, much of Aurora has lost patience with the police department and its inability to stop fatally shooting Black people. 

As absurd as that sounds, it’s an undeniable and wholly preventable truth.

Aurora police and city lawmakers, again, have been the recent target of intense and justifiable public vitriol after Aurora SWAT Officer Michael Dieck shot and killed Kilyn Lewis May 23 as a SWAT unit tried to arrest the 37-year-old Denver man in an Aurora condo parking lot.

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