The problem Aurora can’t get past was made clear this week with controversy created in trying to adopt a policy dictating how city lawmakers should behave when they have to confront the public after news of an officer-involved shooting.
One side of the city council scowlingly insists that offering condolences to friends and family members of someone killed by an Aurora police officer during some kind of interaction with police sends the wrong message and is essentially “anti-police.”
The other side of the city council grimacingly insists that elected leaders have a duty to show sympathy and remorse for the tragic loss of life and explain the legal constraints about what they can and can’t do about it…