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Aurora Police launch investigation into driver who drove through protesters
Channel 31 Aurora/Denver Colo ^ | July 26 2020 | Colleen Flynn and Vicente Arenas

Posted on 07/26/2020 9:23:11 PM PDT by rintintin

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — The Aurora Police Department officially launched an investigation into the driver of the Jeep that drove through a crowd of protesters at a demonstration demanding justice for Elijah McClain on Saturday. They are also trying to identify the shooter or shooters that fired shots striking two people.

According to APD, after driving through the crowd of protesters, the driver pulled over at East 6th Avenue and Billings Street. He located officers who were investigating a separate, unrelated crash at that location. The driver was positively identified, questioned, and the Jeep was impounded for evidentiary purposes.

APD says that preliminary interviews with the Jeep driver indicate he was scared and drove through the crowd after protesters surrounded his vehicle, striking it and yelling. He claims a white pickup struck the front of his vehicle.

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Aurora’s Interim Chief of Police, Vanessa Wilson, made this statement:

“I not only find great concern with someone making the decision to drive their vehicle toward protesters on the interstate but that someone in the protester group opened fire, recklessly shooting two people.

We will be working with our District Attorney to discuss appropriate charges for the driver as well as working tirelessly to identify the shooter(s) on the interstate.

1 posted on 07/26/2020 9:23:11 PM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

Klantifascists beating your car and some firing guns.

Why WOULDN’T a driver be scared for their very life?


2 posted on 07/26/2020 9:26:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: rintintin

Charge the victim and “identify” the assailant


3 posted on 07/26/2020 9:26:31 PM PDT by digger48
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“I not only find great concern with someone making the decision to drive their vehicle toward protesters on the interstate but that someone in the protester group opened fire, recklessly shooting two people.”
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Well, Chief, I find “great concern” with police and authorities who allow mobs on the interstate.


4 posted on 07/26/2020 9:30:14 PM PDT by House Atreides (It is not a HOAX but it IS CERTAINLY A PRETEXT)
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To: rintintin

KcuF that

Investigate the terrorist

They are responsible for this


5 posted on 07/26/2020 9:31:00 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: a fool in paradise

This type of incident has happened in several instances in multiple states. All based on fear and an instinct to escape harm. Not sure my reaction would be different.


6 posted on 07/26/2020 9:31:40 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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Interim Police Chief Vanessa Wilson.

Someone please try to convince me that this froot loop was the best they could come up with to lead ANYBODY!

7 posted on 07/26/2020 9:39:37 PM PDT by Enterprise
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“I not only find great concern with someone making the decision to drive their vehicle toward protesters on the interstate..."

If the Aurora cops refuse to enforce local laws, then THEY are part of the rioting mob.

8 posted on 07/26/2020 9:40:36 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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>>Aurora’s Interim Chief of Police, Vanessa Wilson, made this statement:

“I not only find great concern with someone making the decision to drive their vehicle toward protesters on the interstate<<

I find great concern with a Police Chief who doesn’t know it is illegal to block an Interstate.


9 posted on 07/26/2020 9:41:08 PM PDT by Tejas Rob
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To: House Atreides

Bump!


10 posted on 07/26/2020 9:41:15 PM PDT by Enterprise
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“...drive their vehicle toward protesters on the interstate...”

Uh, the driver was trying to go from point A to point B, using the interstate. There should be no pedestrians on the interstate.


11 posted on 07/26/2020 9:41:31 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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>>If the Aurora cops refuse to enforce local laws, then THEY are part of the rioting mob.<<

Pretty sure it is a Federal law to not walk on Interstates or block them, so police are abetting a crime by allowing it.


12 posted on 07/26/2020 9:43:16 PM PDT by Tejas Rob
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Sorry I’m not becoming Reginald Denny. If I’m surrounded and they are screaming and touching my vehicle they’re going to learn how to fly real fast.

The animals surround the vehicles shrieking and expect us to do what they say? Floor it baby.


13 posted on 07/26/2020 9:44:59 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: digger48

One more useless female police chief political hack.


14 posted on 07/26/2020 9:49:32 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Tejas Rob
I find great concern with a Police Chief who doesn’t know it is illegal to block an Interstate.
When we were kids if someone told us to "go play on the freeway", even though we were immature punks we still had the sense not to do such a dumbassed thing.
15 posted on 07/26/2020 9:58:40 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: rintintin

Better to be judged by 12...


16 posted on 07/26/2020 9:59:33 PM PDT by Monitor ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Enterprise

Surprised it wasn’t a woman of COLOR like the rest of the police chiefs or mayors seem to be in these turd world cities. I’m guessing this is a 100% LGBTQWERTY “thing” that may not even identify as a woman.


17 posted on 07/26/2020 10:07:20 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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LGBTQWERTY

Yeah, that sort of jumps off the page. It's a face only a froot loop could love.

18 posted on 07/26/2020 10:11:11 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Enterprise

She hasn’t been in favor or phallic objects for some time now, I surmise.


19 posted on 07/26/2020 10:15:12 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: rintintin

Localities that allow blocking of the interstate should be prosecuted by the feds.


20 posted on 07/26/2020 10:18:06 PM PDT by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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