Aurora firefighters call spotlighting a “prank” while officer feared for life

Two Aurora firefighters demoted last month for running an Aurora police sergeant off the road in February explained that what they did was supposed to be a “prank.” But the police officer who was the target of the “prank” said there was nothing funny about what the firefighters did.

“Someone tried to kill me,” the Aurora sergeant said, also asking, “why would you want to use a fire truck to kill a cop?”

The new detailed accounts of the Feb. 25 incident involving Aurora firefighters John Casessa, Ryan Endly, and Aurora Police Sgt. Tony Spano were included in documents released Tuesday to CBS News Colorado by the City of Aurora. The city initially responded last week to a CBS Colorado Open Records Act request about the bizarre incident by claiming photos, videos, reports, and recordings of what happened were considered “personnel files” and could not be released…

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