AURORA | A jury will likely decide whether an Aurora police officer was responsible for the May 12 shooting death of an unarmed, barefoot Black man suffering some kind of mental crisis in a private airport parking lot.
Police Officer Brandon Mills fatally shot 32-year-old Rashaud Johnson in the Parking Spot in northeast Aurora after employees there said a man was behaving erratically, wandering around the complex with no shoes on.
“Yet another unarmed Black man has been condemned to death by the Aurora Police Department,” Johnson family’s attorneys said in a statement. “Under the APD’s playbook, officers escalate encounters that a reasonable officer would resolve peacefully. APD officers bait Black citizens standing on the other side of the weapons into making one wrong move.”…