[Music] now can you hear me i'll be here with you all night [Music] um [Music] close to me spoken [Music] can you hear me [Music] [Music] now [Music] do [Music] uh the regular meeting of the aurora city council for monday february 22nd 2021 is uh called to order with clerk please call the roll mayor kaufman yeah mayor protem bergen here council member berzins here councillor coons council member gruber here council member health here council member law dawson council member johnston here council member mercano president and uh council member president there's a forum uh katie car gardner is here as well i'm sorry i'm sorry mr councilmember garner i have you down thank you uh please join me in a moment of silence for all that have been lost uh through the pandemic and all that are struggling to recover from colgate 19. join me in a moment of silence uh please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance all right plenty of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the for which it republicans one nation under god indivisible with liberty um i need a motion for approval of the minutes for december uh 21st uh 2020. uh motion all right it's removed by uh dave gruber seconded by councilmember lawson uh council uh mayor pro-tem bergen uh to approve the mem uh the uh minutes for december 21st 2020 uh discussion yes mayor i have a question uh councilman thank you thank you on june uh december 21st i'm pulling up my minutes um when we were talking about the uh people's group i think there may be a typo um like let's see sorry i wasn't ready we were talking about it and it said um um oh it's 9k i'm sorry oh yeah 9k um it said that we were approving the 60 000 through december 31st of 2020 i believe it should have been 21 is that correct or is it 2020 correct does staff it's on page four yes council remember let me take a quick look at that and i'll get right back with you okay uh i tell you what um while we're waiting i'm going to go forward and we'll come back to uh 5a i'm going to go to 5b need a motion for the approval of the minutes from january 11 2021 so moved moved by council member coombs second oh bye uh second by mayor pro-tem bergen to approve uh the minutes from january 11 2021 discussion uh seeing none uh with the police called a roll on the approval of the minutes from january 11 20 20 20 20 21. mayor kaufman yes councilmember berzins yes councilmember gardner yes mayor pro tem bergen yes councilmember berzins yes councilmember lawson yes councilmember gruber yes councilmember mario yes councilmember johnston yes councilmember hiltz yes councilmember marcano yes the motion passed while we're waiting uh um combs also a yeah okay thank you while we're waiting on uh 5a i like to go ahead with the announcement for the call-in line patty can you meet roger for the call in line the city council welcomes feedback from residents at council meetings on both matters appearing on the agenda enduring public invited to be heard for those watching on channel 8 please call 855-695-3475 and when connected press star three to get in the queue to speak you'll hear a prompt confirming you're in line to speak to an operator and then be able to continue listening to the meeting until the operator comes on to take down your name and the agenda item you wish to speak on so please remember to press start three we've had several folks press just three without a star and that will not connect you to an operator if you'd like to speak on a specific agenda item and have not already been screened press star 3 to sign up before the item is called by the clerk and callers who did not sign up for public invited be heard before 6 30 may still press start 3 to sign up and speak on non-agenda items at the end of the meeting thank you very well do we have the answer to um uh the question on 5a raised by council member bergens i am checking with staff to make sure that's correct i don't want to um say it is and okay okay thank you thank you i have another another question on this same um and it's thank you and it's 10k where we were discussing the housing strategies um it it shows me not opening my mouth not saying anything and i don't believe that's correct i think i had quite a bit to say about that one but it doesn't have any narrative for me okay we'll go back through the transcript and i'll get to it and make sure that that can be added for you okay i like to i'd like to delay 5a then um for the next regular meeting is that possible but clerk yes very well uh let's proceed then uh to 5c i believe we did 5b am i correct um then 5c um i need a motion uh to approve the minutes for january 25th 2021. may i have a question this is councilman romurio doesn't remember where you did we have an attachment for c and d no we did okay um so does that mean we didn't have minutes to approve there are minutes that should have been in the packet i'm not quite sure what happened there i'm very sorry if i knew that ahead of time i would have attached that so we can move those to the next meeting if you would like yes please very well uh 5c and 5d will then move to the next meeting along with 5a proclamations and ceremonies black history month oh boy clerk i don't believe i was given a hard copy of that resolution okay would you would you like me to read it out would you like mayor protembergen to read it tim bergen do you have it as well i do not um um i think i emailed it to you a little bit ago mayor okay let me see what time did you email it i i printed everything i don't have it let me i can go back to my email it's in our attachment it's attached to our meeting in our minutes okay i have the proclamation right here i can share it if you would like me to please the proclamation says whereas this is the 95th year of black history commemoration since its week-long inception in 1926 and whereas the month of february 1976 has been as a tribute to the thousands of years of black innovation african-americans from our ancestors to now we celebrate determination hard work intelligence and perseverance and the enhancement of all aspects of society includes including business education politics science the community and the arts and whereas we pay tribute to the heroes sung and unsung of african-american history we recall the inner strength that has sustained millions in bondage and whereas researching african-american history brings belated awareness of the many who helped build and defend our nation and of the many individuals who stood against prejudice and injustice that would inspire movements legislation and advancement set to ensure the rights we share today and whereas increasing our awareness of black history we hope to better equip to handle future challenges and opportunities and whereas by the city of aurora's continued recognition of black history month we hope to firmly demonstrate the respect and value we have for our residents of african heritage now therefore mayor mike hoffman of the city of aurora hereby proclaims the month of february 2021 black history month uh um public invited to be heard patty can you please let me the public invited to the heartline first speaker is tara joseph you have three minutes go ahead good evening members of the city council my name is tara joseph and i've been a very active community servant in the city of aurora for over 33 years and considering the report of elijah mccrain findings from the independent council i'd like to understand what the next steps will be to ensure that all of the officers involved are immediately terminated and prosecuted thank you all right thank you next is sean nets you have three minutes go ahead hi thank you so much um i am uh addressing all of the members this evening um i am calling in about elijah mclean and um in light of the not just in light of but especially considering the new report finding um i am i'm calling upon the council members to do the only honorable thing there is to do which is um immediately end in pnd and uh terminate nathan woodyard randy rodema jason rosenblatt jeremy cooper and peter kick i don't know if i said his name right but um i think it's the only uh right thing to do i don't think it is the only right thing to do um to get any sense of justice for mr mclean thank you next is richard you have three minutes go ahead yes my name is yes my name is richard i called from montreal canada i didn't know about the case about mr mclean because i saw arnold schwarzenegger on instagram a role model who put the case publicly and he arnold is a strong supporter of line order but he decided to make an exception and i think those three cops act like believe they were laughing at him like he was like kind of a dead dog like crying for his life and i think that hitalia deserves uh justice and um you know that's it i think he deserves this and i think uh those cuts should be also prosecuted thank you next is jessica you have three minutes go ahead i am basically calling in regards to the same case regarding elijah mcclain and his murder that we witnessed if you've watched it i mean you know that what the police officers did and the paramedics did was inhumane and it was not any sort of line of what we should be in policing so i would love for those officers and those paramedics to be held accountable for their actions and i know that some were fired or reprimanded from the photo mocking how elijah was killed but that is obviously not enough these officers need to be fired and never be able to hold a badge ever again or if we want to respect officers and respect the job we need to get the cops out that who are not honoring the job and doing their best to serve the community for anyone to think that's okay they should not be an officer they should turn in their badge if they think that is okay so in in light of the new report that was uh completed independently it's clear that the aurora police department officers that were involved had no legal basis to stop frisk or choke choke elijah mcclain and the paramedic failed to administer care to elijah or even examine him before injecting him with ketamine enough that you would give a horse so these officers and paramedics need to be terminated if we want to have some respect of the aurora police department thank you speaker is lisa you have three minutes go ahead i am also calling in in regards to the elijah mcclane case the first thing that i want to say is that it is just absolutely clear and has been since the day that elijah was murdered that no one involved in this case should still have a job they should all be facing criminal charges at this point and i'm a mother of four really young children and the entire case and especially the reports tonight i listened in for the hour-long report it just has made me absolutely sickened not just the admittance that if my child is ever in a medical crisis that i can't trust in something as basic as patient advocacy or communication between the people involved especially by people who are sworn in and supposedly are trained to do no harm but even more than that that if there's mistakes or biases or just evil and if it does happen in the situation that those people's bosses the da's and the people involved will cover it will protect the wrongdoing and will put them back in a situation that makes them eligible to do this again to someone else and it is because of cases like this that when my six-year-old brings up police i feel like i have an obligation to explain to her that even though their job description is to protect them that she cannot blindly rely on them for that that's a really sickening reality as a parent and the fact that these individuals are still in a position to do that to others is just a mother's nightmare and should just be a human nightmare um so i just reiterate that all five of them from woodyard birdman raven black cooper and kitcheny they should all be fired um they should be facing consequences they should be facing charges and that the people that are covering this up that have been protecting them for this entire year and should also be held accountable thank you next is best you have three minutes go ahead perhaps it is your turn you have three minutes go ahead all right we'll try coming back to bed let's go to sofia sophia you have three minutes go ahead hello can you hear me yes we can okay i was told i would have to speak at the end of the meeting i wasn't expecting to be called to attend um i'm calling in also about the elijah mcclain case and about the report that was released today um of course we've known ever since elijah's murder that was unconscionable and wrong and that the police never ever had the right to take his life they should never have the right to take anyone's life and policeman is the only job in the country where you are allowed to kill another human being and not face a single consequence for it all of them still hold their jobs it's not just that they haven't been charged but they also hold their jobs even though we have video evidence we've been killing him even though we have an autopsy report because they killed him even though there was no medical reason for elijah to die that night before the police went over and detained him and choked him in the paramedics forced an unbelievable amount of ketamine into his body that caused him to die and everyone responsible for that night and his death deserves and must face consequences for that because we cannot live we cannot live in a place that that does not mean our justice for elijah and that justice has to look like all of the officers have all been fired it must look like them facing treasures for first-degree murder because that is what it was and it also means that we need to define this in the fall issue of our police department because these actions make it clear beyond belief still measure that the aurora police department doesn't do anything to protect our service but they actually make our community less safe because they put people like elijah mcclain someone who's only less than a year older than i am who would be blessing you older than i am we tried 25 in a few days they didn't just put him in danger they killed him and please put us in danger every single day the fact that these officers haven't been fired even though they've demonstrated they're capable of killing people in cold blood and having them fired demonstrates us that we can't trust anyone on the our police department so i cannot imagine interacting with an epd officer who hasn't already turned in their badge frankly i cannot imagine i literally cannot imagine continuing to serve next to someone who i know is a murderer if you need to work next to someone who's a murderer i can't even believe that i live in a community right with someone who i with people who i know are willing to kill other people and with others who are unwilling like like you all people on the royalty council where i'm willing to hold them to account elijah mclean does there's justice and the families there's justice and we as community office do that too thank you thank you next is zach go ahead hi there my name is zach i'm calling in from columbia south carolina also regarding the elijah mcclane caves because i believe this is a national issue and is also becoming an international issue um the world is quite literally watching this meeting i am calling to demand that the aurora city council put the pressure on to hold the officers who murdered elijah mcclain to hold them accountable and um i'm asking for those officers to be fired their names yet again are nathan woodyard randy jason rosenblatt jeremy cooper and peter tuniak this is a chance for the war city council to show the rest of the world that we will not stand for this type of policing in our communities and that we will divest from the police who cannot hold on safe spaces for our communities and in fact i'm at the last caller just mentioned are actually actively making the communities less safe um this is the time to rise to the occasion and the failure to do so uh obviously to the world that the aurora city council does not stand behind this movement thank you so much for your time thank you let's try going back to best now beth you have three minutes go ahead all right that's we'll keep trying yeah coming back willie you are next uh you have three minutes i am calling about elijah mclean and i just want to make sure that we're all taking in account that with any other job this mistake of this magnitude is made people are fired and changes are made at the top and there's a change in culture in the workplace dynamic and i hope you all take these actions in a minimum the what nathan woodyard and uh nathan woodyard and randy one second what nathan woodyard and randy rodema and jason rosenball and jeremy cooper and peter i don't know how to say his last name but what those people did is just terrible and it should not go for in our society and you all have city council members of aurora oh let's better than this and it it's just terrible that you like y'all even arrested trey quinn and terrence roberts to advocate for justice for this young man when y'all know that these people killed him and y'all don't want to do anything about it and it's just disgusting and so i have questions for y'all which is how we all make it safe for me and my melanin brothers and sisters to feel safe walking around the streets of aurora to know that we're not going to just get ejected with ketamine or you aren't going to think that when someone's 145 pounds that they're 225 pounds like it makes no sense and so i just hope that you'll have other plans of action than just firing these officers and thinking that it's all going to be better because it runs deeper than just the officers and the emts that were involved it's it really starts with even you guys you know you guys got to be held to a higher standard as well and so i just hope everyone takes things into a deeper account and don't just think that we fire the officers and it's over no we got to change the whole system that's all i have to say all right brianna is next you have three minutes good afternoon council council women and men i am here to speak on eliza mclean and the disgrace that this has brought to colorado and especially the aurora pd i'm a native coloradan and have been born and raised in this beautiful state and i've always had the perception that colorado was filled with light-hearted and loving people but this disgrace is deeply ashamed and each person needs to be held accountable for this action i cannot express the lack of leadership and accountability has gone for a year and a half now and like i said each person involved since that night has contributed not only to a cover-up to a murder but to downright injustice and we need to find justice for elijah mcclain from the 911 call to have come in and clearly stated that elijah did not have a weapon and does not seem to be harmful these officers had absolutely no right to stop and trust him to hold him in a choke hold and to administer a drug into his body i do not take a vitamin without reading the ingredients and knowing exactly what impact it may have on my body for another person to have been allowed to administer a drug that for 140 pounds young man that was enough for a 190 pound man clearly states that not only are they incompetent and do not deserve a job but actually didn't state that they are unable to keep anyone safe in this community i do not trust an officer and as the aurora pd to tell me bless you let alone de-escalate a situation if you do not take this time to invest in community invest in training for your officers and i'm not talking about some diversity training that they sit in and check a box off i'm talking about genuine training where they go in and learn about their community and you have failed you need to invest in better schooling we are wasting our money spending my taxpayer dollars are going to this a broken down system and it is a disgrace i'm ashamed i'm disgusted and i absolutely demand that these officers nathan woodyard randy rodima jason rosenberg jeremy cooper and petey chinook are fired immediately which should have happened a year and a half ago the fact that they have not been fired are you kidding me are you joking like this is unbelievable and not only do they need to be fired because the embarrassment that they have not already been they need to be indicted on a crime of murder if you are sitting in that room today and do not take action then just know when you go to sleep tonight that you are complicit in the murder of a man you have taken a soul off of this earth if you do not take action and bring justice for elijah mcclain you should feel it i demand justice thank you alright ryan is next ryan you have three minutes hi my name is ryan i'm from aurora i've lived in colorado almost all my life um i mean first off i want to say i'm glad i'm glad that this investigation this new report this independent investigation into elijah mcclain's death happened you know maybe for dave gruber i'm not sure if he read it racist some takeaways there there was really no legal basis at all for the aurora police to intervene while elijah mcclain was walking down the street at all as soon as woodyard touched him that was breaking department policy let alone a completely racist and violent action in in the beginning of a of a murder and um you know another takeaway i think that the paramedics they showed up and they didn't check on elijah or even examine him for seven minutes they injected him with this enormous dose of ketamine before before examining him at all the the initial investigation into this murder that the questions were crafted to help exonerate these officers i mean just just fact after fact of just absolute brutality and racism on the part of this department and i want to say too i mean you know we knew this from day one right and when i say we i mean i mean aurorans i mean people in aurora we knew from day one that what those officers did was incorrect we knew that they should be fired we knew that they should be prosecuted we knew that from day one it took you a little bit longer to come around to it some of you still may not think that but i think a lot of people on this call a lot of the public on this call have known that since the beginning and i think really the only takeaway the only takeaway from this that you could possibly have is that power needs to be taken away from this racist violent department that they that they killed elijah mcclain that they killed elijah mclean and faced no repercussions in fact that the department helped to exonerate them the only option is to take power away from this department but i want to say before even before that what needs to happen is these officers need to be fired and i know you all like really like to talk about what you can't do what you can't do in city council it seems like all you do is say oh we can't do that we can't do this even when even vanessa wilson said she couldn't fire i want you all to be pushing on these other investigations i want you all to be pushing vanessa wilson i want you to be pushing the departments the district attorney to bring criminal charges against against woodyard against rodima against against those two paramedics and they need to be fired first and they need to be jailed and this department needs to be stripped of its power just absolutely disgusting and um yeah i hope that dave gruber sits down and and and reads the report in full um i know he has a lot of time to read your time as well during these meetings okay well thank you very much for your time all right next is walker you have three minutes yeah my name is walker kemp and i am also calling in regards to elijah mclean and i too am glad to hear about this new independent investigation finally admitting that the cops and paramedics were in the wrong when they killed elijah mclean but like has been said here we didn't need this long overdue investigation to tell us that we've all known that they murdered elijah for over a year now and furthermore this report means nothing if you don't put any action behind it every single officer and paramedic involved in elijah mclean's death needs to be fired and prosecuted now there are just no more excuses that's all thank you all right thank you our last speaker is eliza you have three minutes hi um yeah my name is lucero i am a member of tsl and i'm calling in tonight nearly a year and a half after me and i think probably many people on this call's first public comment uh you know regarding elijah mclean um you know still demanding that these killer cops be fired immediately this investigation that just came out proves what the community has been saying all along which is that these officers were directly responsible for the killing of elijah mclean he was never a suspect and the cops had absolutely no business touching him at all let alone beating him to literal death furthermore this proves that the paramedics didn't come to help elijah but rather to assist in the police's murder of him and lastly this proves that the city of aurora like a lot of the city council members a lot of you included took every possible step to cover up this horrendous murder and to ensure that these dangerous killer cops kept like not only they were kept not only from not facing charges but they stayed on the city's payroll they stayed on the police force they stayed on uh well they got desk jobs but you know on our streets so you know all of us are calling here tonight to say no more excuses fire rojima fire woodward fire to choo choo nick fire cooper and make sure rosenblatt never gets a job in public safety ever again and we're still demanding murder charges for the cops um we know that you don't have necessarily the power for that but i just want to echo what ryan said that you should be pushing for that you should be pushing these other investigations and the entire community is going to be watching the ag's investigation and demanding murder charges and nothing less for these compton paramedics that's all thank you that is everyone in line at this point okay the next item is the adoption of the agenda uh the applicant has requested that item 15a uh be removed from the agenda uh so with that exception uh i need a motion mayor dave gruber move to approve the agenda it's been moved by councilmember gruber seconded by persons burzen's uh to approve the agenda with the exception of item 15a discussion uh seeing no discussion uh with the court please call the roll yes councilmember gardner councilmember gardner councilmember berzins yes councilmember johnston yes councilman member mario yes councilmember mcconnell yes councilman mcgruber yes councilmember crooms yes mayor pro tim bergen yes councilmember lawson yes council member hill yes council member gardner gardner uh okay the motion passed well we could now please read the title number eight a reconsideration of resolution 2020 24 to suspend certain council rules uh motion mayor so moved uh it's been moved by uh council member mcconnell seconded by councilmember versions to approve on number uh where the clerk please call the rule is discussion uh will the clerk please call the roll councilmember lawson yes councilmember johnston yes councilman yes councilmember gruber yes mayor pro tim bergen yes councilmember persons yes council member gardner councilmember garner are you there okay council member hill yes council member mario yes the motion passes i need a motion uh to approve the consent calendar item is 9 a through j item is 9a through 9j may i have a question please yes because customer versions thank you on our ipads voting is popping up that we can vote on our ipads is that available or not let me refer to the clerk councilmember burzins i believe right now susan is in escribe and she's just testing it out to see what it's going to be like right now so i'm still going to be calling roll this is just something in the future that we might go towards to help her out should we vote on there so she'll know if it's working or not yes that would be great if you could do that thank you okay thanks but also answer the rule okay the question before us is the adoption of the consent caliber i have a 9 a through 9 g i need a motion okay persons uh it's been moved by councilmember bergen seconded by sorry second by councilmember coombs to approve the consent calendar items 9a through 9g uh discussion uh mayor i do want to pull off 9d um so if we can amend the motion to say not to you with the exception of n or 9 a through g with the exception of 90. is there is there objection from moving nine beat from the consent counter uh saying none then mayor d not b o d okay uh objection from moving 9d from the consent calendar uh seeing none uh discussion uh sitting down the question before it says sorry yeah joshua coons um i just wanted to ask for a brief presentation from staff on 90. well let's vote you're going to vote on that next right okay sorry okay uh further discussion on the adoption of the consent calendar items uh 9 a through nine j with the exception of nine d seeing none uh the questioning force is the adoption of the consent calendar items nine a through uh nine g with the exception of nine d with a click please call the rule mayor kaufman yes mayor pro-tem bergen yes councilmember berzins yes member gruber yes councilmember hilt yes councilmember maria yes councilmember mcconnell yes councilmember lawson yes councilmember coombs yes councilmember johnston yes and councilmember gardner the motion passes will the clerk now please read the title of it number nine d item 90 is consideration to men and women 763 for providing professional engineering services for the feasibility to design and permitting support for wild horse dam and reservoir motion motion move to approve nine moved by councilmember seconded by second marcano second by council member mcconnell to approve item number nine d discussion mayor can i just ask for a brief presentation from staff for the benefit of the public presentation from staff good evening mayor and city council can you hear me okay very good um so this item is the second phase of design for the wild horse reservoir in our integrated water master plan that we put together in 2016 it identified the need for additional water storage and so this project has been in the works for quite some time and we did an initial feasibility design over the last year to make sure that there weren't any fatal flaws for the site that's been selected which is in park county close to the town of parcel this phase of the of the design is to further investigate some of the geotech around the site to ensure that the the size of the reservoir that's been established and the location doesn't have any more fatal flaws associated with um the geotech you know be that um subsurface where there might be water loss or um um faults or those types of things and so there's a significant amount of additional subsurface investigation and then we also do a feasibility for the actual dam design so the type of dam the sizes of the dams and then kind of a basic general spillways and some of those other pieces of infrastructure related to the reservoir and then the result is a feasibility report to move into final design and construction of the dam further discussion questions of staff seeing none thank you very much um discussion uh seeing none uh the question before us is the adoption of item number nine d uh would click please call the roll mayor kaufman yes councilmember johnston yes that's what member mercano councilman mcconnell i'm sorry i got double muted again yes council remember hilts yes councilmember gardner yes mayor pro tim bergen yes council member berzins yes councilmember gruber yes councilmember lawson yes councilmember coombs yes yes and council member gardner can i'm not sure i could hear you whenever we asked for the um adoption of the agenda or the consent calendar how would you like to vote for those two items i'd like to be a yes thank you and the reconsideration of resolution 2024 yes okay thank you we will now have an announcement of the call-in line and the time is now 7 16. uh the city council uh will stand in recess until 7 21. the access live event is a music hold music hold ended for residents who would like to speak on a resolution or ordinance and have not already been screened please press star 3 before the item is called by the clerk for those watching on channel 8 please call 855 six nine five three four seven five to be connected and then press star three don't forget the star you won't get connected to an operator council will take a short break to allow for any additional speakers to sign up again please be patient and stay on the line until the operator is able to take down your information as long as you hear a prompt after pressing star 3 and can still hear either the music hold or the meeting in progress you are in line to speak to an operator [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] good regular meeting of the royal city council is called back to order or will the clerk please read the title of item number 10a resolution 2021-07 a resolution of the city council of the city of aurora colorado to modify the rules of order and procedure for the rural colorado city council uh councilmember lawson like to give a motion to 10a please that's removed by councilmember lawson seconded by bergen uh mayor for dembergen uh to approve united number 10 a um discussion versions councilmember versions thank you i just have a simple question i know we can go to um other people's meetings you know whether they're virtual or in the city building will we be able to attend these meetings also if they're online okay yeah that's all i needed to know thank you further further discussion uh seeing none the question before says the adoption of item number ten a with clerk please call the rule councilmember coombs yes councilmember johnston yes councilmember hiltz yes councilmember lawson yes councilmember mcconnell yes councilmember berzins yes mayor pro tim bergen yes council member gardner yes council member yes council member google yes the motion passes will declare now please read the title of item number um 10b resolution 2021-08 a resolution of the city council of the city of aurora colorado to modify the rules of order and procedure for the rural colorado city council these are administrative changes i'm sorry councilmember comes community yeah sorry i said move to approve 10b it's been moved by councilmember coombs seconded by second uh councilmember mcconnell to approve our number 10b uh discussion yeah mayor i had a good uh a discussion i i'm trying to find exactly where it is it looked like my ipad did away with all my red marks um why not oh okay yeah i did away with your red marks but one of them is on page uh gosh um four and it's number no it's number five on page four it's in the attendance of guests and i'm just i i think i know the answer but i just want to make sure uh and obviously the city funds may not be used to pay any expenses i just want to make sure that i i'm sorry mayor i'm going to use you for an example if our mayor takes his wife his wife can stay in his room and not have to pay for half the bed and half the bathroom or half the uber is that correct i think you have to get a date first i don't know um the mayor's not married so um the question to staff as an example yeah i mean obviously i realized that the city won't pay for food but it is the does the room have to be split or you know and the ubers have to be split because it's not it's not in here and i just don't want to get into the weeds if it's not spilled out in here so this is dan brotzman you would pay for the additional amount for the extra person so if you had a single and you went to a double room you would pay the extra amount you they don't have to split a single room it's the extra amount that they're paying so again the airline ticket is easy there it wouldn't pick up the airline on the room it's if they're uh upgrades because of the other person whatever would have been paid for for and so two council members in rooms next to each other would pay the exact same amount right and and a lot of well most hotels don't charge more for two than for one but we should recognize that that could happen okay all right that's all i needed to know like i said i don't want to i don't want to get in the weeds or have somebody get in trouble because of it further discussion i see now the question before says the adoption of item number 10b with the clerk please call the roll council member lawson yes councilmember hiltz yes councilmember marcano yes mayor pro-tem bergen yes councilmember coons yes councilmember gruber yes councilmember gardner yes councilmember mario yes councilmember berzins yes mayor i'm sorry councilmember johnston yes the motion passes uh with clerk now please read the title to item number 10c item 10c is the joint wet weather monitoring monitoring iga it's resolution 2021-09 a resolution of the city council of the city of aurora colorado expressing their city council's support of an intergovernmental agreement among the city of aurora colorado by and through its utility enterprise their urban drainage and flood control district dba mile high flood district the city and county of denver and the city of lakewood regarding funding of joint wet weather monitoring other colorado discharge permit activities mayor motion uh councilmember coombs move to approve it's removed by councilmember coombe second by second councilman mcconnell to approve item number 10c discussion by sitting down with a clerk please call the roll on the adoption of item number tennessee councilmember coombs yes councilmember helps yes council member gruber yes councilmember gardner yes councilmember johnston yes councilmember berzins yes councilmember marcano yes councilmember lawson yes councilmember muriel yes mayor pro tim bergen yes the motion passes with the click now please read the title bottom number 13a yes i think um i'm sorry we have it yes uh let's take uh we'll have another announcement of a call-in line the time is now uh 7 29 council will stand in recess until 7 34. for residents who would like residents who would like to speak on an ordinance and have not already been screened please press star 3 before the item is called by the clerk for those watching on channel eight please call eight five five six nine five three four seven five to be connected and then press star three council is taking a short five minute break to allow for any additional speakers to sign up again be patient and stay on the line until the operator is able to take down your information as long as you heard the prompt after pressing star three and can either hear music or the medium in progress you are in line to speak to an operator [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] three [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] of february 22nd for the aurora city council is called back to order uh clerk please read the title number 13a item 13a is 2020-07 an ordinance of the city council of the city of aurora amending article 4 of section 130 relating to the modification of the exemption for long-term lodging uh motion mayor councilman mccoon's move to approve 13a it's moved by councilman recruiting second by persons uh councilmember burns to approve item number 13a uh discussion uh seeing none with the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of item number 13a mayor mayor yes oh uh mayor tim yeah i think uh just if staff could just provide a very brief explanation of why we're changing the code although staff yes this is trevor vaughn manager of tax and licensing this adjustment follows along with what the state and the city of denver has done with regards to modifying the exemption from lodgers tax with regard to basically residential stays the definitions previously the way the exemption was defined was it applied to any person which would also include business entities and so this is modifying this exemption so it only applies to natural persons so that a business entity which might rent out a room for longer than 30 days but have different people in it usually this isn't commonly associated with airlines um previously where we're taking advantage of the exemption which uh was not the original intent of the exemption the original intent of the exemption is to apply to uh individuals that are actually residents of a location a business hotel or motel or or a similar establishment further discussion saying the question before says the adoption of number 13a where the clerk please call the roll councilmember gardner yes councilmember coombs yes councilmember marcano yes councilmember hiltz yes councilmember gruber yes councilmember burzins yes councilmember johnston yes council member mario yes mayor pro tim bergen yes councilmember lawson yes the motion passes now please read the title of item number 14a 14 8 is 2021-05 consideration for an ordinance of the city council of the city of aurora colorado rezoning 185 acres more or less south of 64th a 64th avenue between e-470 and denali street from mixed-use airport district mu-a to airport district a d and amending the zoning map accordingly high point hyde industrial rezone may remove to approve 14a so mike that's when mumbai council member gruber seconded by councilmember johnston uh to approve item number 14 a discussion uh saying none with click please call the rule and the adoption of item number 14a councilmember coombs yes council member berzins yes councilmember gardner councilmember gruber yes councilmember johnston yes councilmember marcano yes mayor pro tim bergen yes councilmember lawson yes councilmember mario yes councilmember hiltz yes the motion passes well the clerk now please read the title volume number 14 um b 20 21-06 an ordinance authorizing the city of aurora colorado to exercise the power of imminent domain for acquisition of certain properties for the i-70 piccadilly road interchange project motion uh councilman mcconnell still moved moved by council member mcconnell second bye uh councilmember coombs to approve our number 14b discussion mayor councilmember coombs can we get a brief presentation from staff i know we saw one in study session but i think it merits at least that staff presentation good evening mayor my name is hector reynoso i'm the manager of the real property services division of the public works department in 2019 the city received a 25 million dollar u.s department of transportation build grant to construct the i-70 at piccadilly road interchange project the project's footprint is depicted on exhibit a and it will require the acquisition of real property interests from five owners that includes 19 feet parcels 14 permanent easements and two temporary construction easements in september of 2020 cdot provided the city with approved right-of-way plans which authorized the city to initiate the acquisition process and so in september of 2020 the city sent notices of intent to acquire to all five of the affected property owners notifying them of our intent to acquire certain real property interests and depicting exactly what it is we were acquiring and what would be a remainder parcel um not necessary for the project and so um the city expects we expected to receive our appraisals um this first quarter of 21 at which point we would be able to initiate negotiations and send our first offers and so in order to meet the project's funding obligation and be able to provide the five affected property owners the opportunity to qualify for a 1033 tax exchange the staff is requesting passage of this ordinance and you know as a last resort and and in order to meet the funding obligation deadline we may need to acquire some interests by eminent domain please rest assured staff will not proceed with any filing of any actions uh until after we've spoken with counsel are seeing none further discussion uh seeing now the question before us is the adoption of item number 14b uh with clerk please call the roll council member burzens yes councilmember mario yes councilmember johnston yes councilmember gruber yes councilmember gardner council member hilts yes councilmember mercano yes councilmember coombs yes councilmember lawson yes mayor pro tim bergen yes the item passes still at work let me call you right back all right steph please mute uh their their line well kirk now please read the title vitamin c item 14c is the healthy kids meal ordinance 2020-09 an ordinance of the city council of the city of aurora colorado amending chapter 26 by creating a non-sugary default beverage option on children's menus under article six of the city code mayor lawson mayor of i would like to request a postponement of 14 c of the second reading of this ordinance with the request to continue to matter with the tentative set date set for june 14 2021 is there any objection i seeing none uh so ordered please read the title of item number 15a okay 15 a's the call-up of a decision by the planning and zoning commission which unanimously approved an oil and gas location applied for by the gmt exploration company point of order mayor didn't we remove this at the agenda very muted uh that was taken off you didn't i stand corrected um uh we'll click now please read the title of it number 17a reconsideration of resolution 2020-22 review of the powers granted to the city manager by resolution 2020-22 uh motion thank you move to approve 17a moved by uh councilmember burson seconded by customer recruits to approve our number 17 a discussion uh sitting down with clark now please read the please call the role on the adoption of item number 17a councilmember coombs yes councilmember johnston yes councilmember mercano yes councilmember yes councilmember gruber yes council member hilts yes mayor pro tim bergen yes councilmember berzins yes councilmember lawson yes and councilmember gardner councilmember gardner yes the motion passes uh the time is now uh 7 45 i'd like to take five minute uh recess uh we will reconvene at um 5 51. uh council is down recess [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] do foreign regular meeting of the aurora city council for february 22nd is called uh back into order um with clerk uh uh now please read the title uh well uh we are we are now into um deciding on the appointments for the civil service commission we have two appointments each member of council can choose two uh and uh with the clerk uh please uh read the rules so item 18a is the consideration to appoint two members to the civil service commission and the process that was approved by the city attorney's office will be um but i will tally the votes receive for each candidate and announce them after i do roll call with each council member and you're going to give me your top two candidates if there are two candidates that receive six or more votes then the mayor will ask for a motion and second to appoint those two candidates to the civil service commission per appendix f of the council rules one or two candidates who receive six or more votes the candidate with the fewest votes will be removed and the four remaining candidates will be voted on again council will be asked for their top two candidates from the four remaining this process will continue until there are two candidates with six or more votes are there any questions i'm sorry no please proceed i'm sorry for section 5-2 of the charter we ask that council members refrain from abstaining on any vote uh are there any uh questions of of council members seeing none uh will clerk please call the rule for and for council members please give the top two candidates mr kaufman let's see i'm sorry um brooke gabrielli and harold johnson mayor pro tim burgin brooke gabrielli and harold johnson councilmember berzins wow brooke and harold johnson councilmember coombs harold johnson and eric holder councilmember gardner brooke gabrielli and harold johnson councilmember gruber bert gabriele and harold johnson councilmember hiltz carol johnson and brooke gabrielli councilmember johnston carol johnson and brook gabrielli councilmember lawson brooke gabrielli and harold johnson councilmember mark eric mulder and harold johnson councilmember mario harold johnson and eric mulder okay that is eight votes for brooke gabrielli 11 for crow johnson and three for eric mulder do we have a motion for brick gabrielli and harold johnson for the two commissioners yes motion to appoint brook gabrielli and harold johnson by mayor pro tem uh bergen seconded by dave gruber seconded by uh councilmember gruber uh to approve the names of uh harold johnson and brooke gabrielli to the civil service commission uh discussion by seeing none uh will please clerk please call the roll uh on the appointment of brook gabrielli and harold johnson to the civil service commission mayor kaufman yes councilmember lawson councilmember johnston yes councilmember coombs yes councilmember berzins yes councilmember gruber yes councilmember gardner yes councilmember hilt yes council member mercano yes councilmember muriel yes mayor pro tim bergen yes the motion passes now please read the title of item number 18b consideration to appoint five members to the aurora immigrant and refugee commission yes a motion mayor uh councilman comes um move to a point sorry i have to fill up this list oh it's not a list um okay uh kevin vargas l beachland linda skelly m weidman and jay vivid junix to the immigrant and refugees are there other nominations second um i'm sorry okay uh second by uh mayor pretend bargain uh uh discussion by seeing none with the clerk uh please call the role in the adoption of the the five members uh the five nominees to uh the aurora immigrant and refugee commission councilmember lawson oh i'm sorry mayor kaufman yes i i have your i have your vote councilmember awesome thank you oh councilmember gardner yes councilmember berzins yes yes councilmember johnston yes councilmember marcano yes councilmember gruber yes and councilmember muriel yes the motion passes there is a no report by the mayor reports by council councilmember lawson thank you mayor um i do have a pfizer update uh from the federal side the u.s house budget committee took up a 1.9 trillion covert relief package today the full house is expected to vote on the package by the end of the week in our state updates the general assembly reconvened last week and over with over 200 bills were introduced the pfizer committee met on friday and took action on seven bills the committee supported the following bills that align with the city state priorities house bill 2117 local government authority to promote affordable housing units house bill 21 1075 replacing the term illegal alien house bill 21 1030 expanding peace officers mental health grant program um for the rtd reimagine reimagine rtd will be reconvening again on march 11th so i'll be bringing off a a report regarding that once we start um meeting again which is on march 11th and just mayor just for black history month i just want to just say that um i i would not be here today and i do want to acknowledge edna mosley she was one of aurora's african-american city council members and i wouldn't be remiss if i did not mention her she has basically been the state people she was the first african-american on this council and to be able to follow her in her footsteps i think that that's something to be acknowledged in in aurora and also on this city council so thank you for letting me um initiate that black history moment today thank you and i would like to mention uh dr barbara shannon bannister who is uh one of our appointees on the civil service commission who founded the arroyo chapter of the naacp and worked for the city of aurora for 36 years uh ending up in charge of the our community relations division and as an african-american did so much for our city councilmember gruber another report uh i'll return to council members councilmember gardner i'm no i'm here i just okay that was really fast thank you um i just wanted to address briefly our study session i know we're going to have another meeting and get more information and have time to answer or have our questions answered i guess but you know i've refrained from speaking up too much on it just because i chaired the committee that called for this investigation and i didn't think it appropriate to comment while this investigation was of course ongoing but i am so upset and livid and frustrated i i knew that this investigation was going to come back with the actions of the officers involved not being appropriate i did not expect to see the major crimes investigation be so shoddy and i have i guess i have a couple of questions and i don't need answers to these tonight but i just want to put them on the record um i want to know if the people involved in that major crimes investigation are still in that role and if they are when they're going to be removed and i want to know if our city manager is going to hire a third party to evaluate their other investigations i am i'm really upset um i i you know i knew i knew the actions that day but to see how deeply this corruption goes is just i i just can't so those are my these are my two questions uh councilman gardner uh council member marielle mayor i'll start off with um the announcement of my town hall which is uh this thursday at 6 p.m on webex this is a follow-up conversation um of some business and non-profit community members along the colfax corridor that i convened so i'm just inviting our business community to attend um we're in the process of following up on some recommendations on short-term long-term recommendations on how to support and improve the area given many different challenges [Music] so that's the first thing and then the second one is just um i guess to offer some thoughts on the elijah mcclain investigation many more conversations need to have uh be had um i have a whole laundry list of questions that i have yet to you know have answered and this is just one of the many other reports as well um so just just offering that context to the community and if you guys have any specific questions um that weren't asked today in public comment or otherwise please feel free to communicate that so that we can pass that along for the next time um but it just um yeah it was really difficult listening to that and i um put myself in those same shoes um elijah mclean was killed like three minutes from where i live um he was 23 years old when he passed and um i was first elected at that same age and i just can't help but understand the the parallels and the different lived experiences um of somebody who's from aurora grew up here um and the very different life trajectories that we have had by no fault of his own and my heart is heavy just to to hear and to kind of relive the trauma of listening to these videos and um you know nothing that i think we can ever say will will really constitute the magnitude of this loss um and what the community feels but um it's not lost on me that there are so many parallels and you know just different lived experience and and the the privilege that i have um to not have to worry about those things um walking around in the dark uh with a face mask um so yeah uh i guess i just offered that um just to kind of express my thoughts you know where my heart aches and you know of course for his family um people who loved elijah um and you know this we know how how big of a conversation this is just within the day we've gotten close to 600 emails from people all over the country and as you guys heard even outside of our country and um i you know these are form emails there i know there's some members of our council that have issue with form emails that they're all the same but i see it as a way of engaging in people expressing their solidarity um and and holding people accountable so um you know my inbox is full but that's okay and i'm i'm glad that we have people who are um continuing to speak up um and advocate and again it is it is black history month so we think about our history both of the wonderful accomplishments of our black and african american community but also the ways in which this community is disparately impacted so um yeah thanks for letting me kind of share my thoughts kind of real time of of the elijah mcclane situation thank you uh council member johnston thank you mayor um and thank you councilmember muriel for those thoughts um i'd like to to talk for anyone who's listening and want wants more information on the independent report released today you can go to auroragov.org and it is on our mate and our our home page on the presentation that was provided this evening um from the team will be it's usually available the the following afternoon on auroratv.org for for study session it's really important i think to listen to both the presentation which was very um very difficult but important and then also read the read the report i do want to mention obviously there's lots of different pieces to the many reforms that we have taken and need to take the independent oversight that the community police task force has been working on is wrapping that up and will be presented to the city council in march and then we also have the 21cp solutions that are doing a comprehensive review of apd's practices and policies and procedures that will be presented to the public and council this this spring we don't have an exact date so lots of information out there um please go to our website for more and then let us know email us we are going to continue asking questions since we didn't have that opportunity tonight and we want to hear from you as the public of of what we need to um to ask and be part of this process thank you so much and i want to thank councilmember lawson for mentioning edna mosley i did not know her but i know her daughter and her daughter lives in ward three um and she if edna was as nice as her daughter she was a really fine person so thank you for mentioning that and then mayor you mentioned barbara shannon bannister i have worked with her for years on council but i've also worked with her for years on the board of aurora mental health and i can tell you she's a hard worker and she believes in people and so i i'm just happy that i know edna's daughter and and uh barbara shannon banister because they're they're wonderful folks okay that's what i want to say on that um i do want to remind people in ward 3 that we do have our uh march ward meeting virtual and it's going to be on the second wednesday and that will be the 10th um 6 30 to 8 and we do have the group uh coming to present about the uh havana traffic study and so they'll be here so look on online um under under ward 3 to get the link so you can call in or either join us online for our virtual meeting uh the next thing is dan bronsman is going to make me go through go through the procedure to ask you to change one of the dates on our calendar i think this is like the fourth time i've mentioned this for the accelerate colorado trip it it's still on hasn't been canceled yet and it is scheduled to leave denver on july the 26th that is monday so i will be proposing and according to legal i cannot do it tonight i can only tell you what i'm going to do next meeting i am going to propose that our council meeting scheduled for july the 26th be put on july 29th so we will have study session and council meeting on the same day like we have for years and years and years so that will be my proposal at our next study session but it does need a unanimous vote so if you would please check your calendars between now and study session once again that's moving our council meeting on the 26th to the 19th so we have both on the same evening the 19th will have study session and council meeting so that's all i have thank you gonna be elected to the aurora city council and her husband john mosley was a member of the storied tuskegee airmen so extraordinary history in the city of aurora with both of them council member mcconnell so first i want to announce that our next ward 4 meeting is going to be held on wednesday march 10th uh at 6 30 p.m we'll be live on a webex and facebook live our guests are going to be city manager jim twombly and mr ralph charlotte who is the chair of the veterans affairs commission um so mr foley will be providing a general state of the city update and also taking um audience questions and mr charlotte will be uh giving us an overview of the commission's goals for this year and how we can support our veteran community um so i've gotten most of the way through the investigation today um read the full summary read the recommendations now i'm kind of working my way through the meat of the report it's heavy um if you are reading this for the first time and not familiar with the transcripts of the video um just it's gonna be a little hard to read um we have a lot of work to do um i know that a lot of folks uh want to want to see us move really quickly and i share your anger your frustration um with how so much of this has played out i just i think we need to reiterate or reaffirm that separation between apd and afr as outlined in the report i think that the the committee did a great job really detailing how that communication broke down detailing how certain uh you know folks might feel intimidated to or you know like it's expected of them to administer uh medications um just kind of on based on how a scene is described to them rather than taking a first-hand look this is something that's been reaffirmed to me with some discussions i've had with members of afr um just so you all know who were following some of the ordinances that we were proposing last year i'm going to unshelf the ordinance that we put on hold pending the investigation to again reaffirm that separation between the police department and aurora fire rescue and address the use of sedatives um within the scope and course of law enforcement activity i know that is a huge concern for our community and i'm hoping that we can have a real robust discussion at policy committee and a study session on that subject i'm looking forward to us getting a i would prefer honestly if when we reschedule uh with 21cp that it's a forum that is accessible to the public as well mayor so maybe not a study session maybe a special meeting and i would really uh hope that we can get that done this week while this is fresh on everyone's mind when there is you know a lot of interest so that the public can participate as well i'm hopeful that my colleagues are open to moving our policy committees and schedules around i know that's a big ask but i think this is definitely worthy of the time and attention so with that i want to thank everyone for who called in earlier and i'm hoping that we can deliver and get us in the news for positive things in the near future so thank you uh councilmember uh councilman coombs thank you mayor um so first of all we'll have the award five meeting on march 3rd at 6 30 pm and we'll have a presentation on the havana corridor multimodal study as well as water coming to talk about conservation measures and drought conditions and what could occur if our drought conditions persist or worsen as far as drought measures that a rural water may need to take um there dr cogg did also meet last week and at that meeting i was appointed to the finance and budget committee for dr cox so i'll be serving on that committee as well as dr cogg on behalf of the city of aurora the cherry creek basin water quality authority met last week and we had a conversation about the fire that occurred in cherry creek state park um it does look like there's going to be considerably more monitoring and information needed around potential of chemicals that may have been used in extinguishing the fire and making sure that those aren't getting into the reservoir as well as discussions about fire breaks around the edges of the park and how we can make sure that landscaping for homes that are on the border of the park is not such that those homes could be at greater risk of fire danger if we were to have another brush fire and then they do not have major concerns about the burned material leeching into the reservoir because it was a pretty quick fire um and so some of the deeper burn that may have led to that leaching seems to have not occurred um and then visit aurora also um i have an update from visitor or we did have our board meeting last week um and actually i will be on the performance and engagement committee for visitor horizons here in addition uh visit aurora will be sending out destination assessment surveys to all aurora stakeholders tomorrow um and that's to get an idea of how key stakeholders view tourism and attempts to attract tourism to the city and then the results will be a report card for the health and benchmarking of aurora as a destination uh visit aurora will be scheduling a follow-up planning session uh to share key findings and if anyone has any questions they can contact roosevelt directly and then of course finally today's study session i was hoping that we would have the opportunity to ask more questions and i look forward to being able to do that because i have many um but reading it was as others have said really difficult and disturbing the idea that contact was made within 10 seconds physical contact was made and that carotid holds were already being administered in less than two minutes and the idea that that is consistent with the policies and training of our department is unacceptable um there's no deal de-escalation that is possible in that kind of time frame um and so the process that was undertaken by the major crimes unit and by uh the use of force review indicating that this was acceptable um is nothing short of gaslighting the public and the people that expressed concern and stood up to say this is not okay and so it's not at all surprising that we have people calling in emotional and angry because that is how one feels when you realize you've been gasless and particularly when you've been gasped by your government and so i look forward to being able to ask more questions and to address the deep issues that we clearly have mayor for jen burgin thank you mayor um wanted to uh report about the recreation center the southeast rec center groundbreaking took place thursday afternoon and that was very exciting it was a little bit cold outside but it was a great day to be able to celebrate um and so we're looking forward to the opening in 2023 i have a neighborhood watch meeting that is scheduled for february 25th that's next thursday from six to eight o'clock and my guest um presenter will be jennifer dubrow she's the neighborhood watch manager um a lot of the communities in my ward have expressed an interest and so this will just be more of an educational presentation and just lastly the report that we received of course on the independent investigation 157 pages a lot to absorb and a lot to consider in terms of uh what we heard today in the recommendations so thank you thank you uh there are 60 screen callers uh in public invited to be heard and without objection i would like to re uh to have each caller limited to two minutes instead of three minutes as are there objections mayor i object very well uh then then uh each caller i have three minutes uh please staff proceed with public invite to be heard three minutes go ahead hi can you hear me we can i am disgusted let me just say was this whole charade of forcing the public was everybody to be heard urgently on this issue to win through your whole agenda there is nothing more pressing to public safety and that is more of a public interest from this investigation than this case of elijah mclean this was a disgrace and i know that you would not have gotten away with it if we had not if we had been in person without the mute button you would not have gotten away with this i saw you do this when we came there to speak about elijah mcclain the first time he threatened to drag us out with police officers because there were too many of us who wanted to speak now you have the privilege of muting us well that will not last forever this is outrageous so the the casual tone with what you're holding this meeting is outrageous this report has been 18 months it has been 18 months since elijah was murdered you get your report back that you commissioned that you couldn't do anything until you got this report now you have it what it indicates it's alarming it's horrifying and you're sitting here carrying on with business thinking oh we need to have more conversations oh we need to have more investigation oh we think about this more no we need action we need these killers off of our streets we need their power we need the power of the aurora police department and the city completely checked because they are a danger to us they have murdered elijah mclean brutally they had no right they had no right in the eyes of the people and now we know that legally they had no right we want these officers fired it has been 18 months why is that not the first thing on your agenda i don't want to hear about rule changes before we talk about that because these officers broke the rules and they have faced no consequences i want to see woodyard and rodima and cooper and titanic it fired immediately immediately and then we want to see them put on trial because there's no doubt that there is the basis for a criminal trial here what is in this report is horrifying and it's nothing new it's nothing that we didn't know already anybody who has been watching this knows this but you needed your report so here you have it and what the are we doing in this meeting having this casual tone forcing the public to next is kiara go ahead you have three minutes i love that you guys feel that the f word is worth censoring but you have no problem with murder that just cracks me up um so i appreciate you guys taking the time to give everybody just three minutes that we deserve and to whomever it was it suggested we should only get two you know what side you're on um you're on the same side as the people who were on that council that were blue lives matter shirt on a night when we were here to speak about elijah mcclain's murder would you be any more disrespectful this child this 23 year old child he had a life he had a feeling he had nerve endings he had flesh and bones and family he had promise he had dreams and these police officers snuffed it out they slowly tortured him they murdered him while he begged for them to stop well he called them beautiful and you sit here like the coward you are not taking action not stopping him not stopping these police officers who murdered him not taking them out of their roles for the safety of the public not doing a damn thing but sitting around talking about pedantic things that don't matter in casual tones with your privilege it's beyond disgusting as i wash my child here for his bath and i wait for my chance to speak all i can do is think that this other mother got her child taken and that this child had no opportunity to finish his life and that these horrible human beings who are out there supposedly serving and protecting actually stole another life for nothing he was walking down the road this report clearly shows there was no reason for them to even have the ability to go up and approach him let alone detain him let alone choke him let alone beat him let alone give him ketamine which then caused him to die i'm so ashamed to have come from aurora right now i'm so ashamed to have blown up in a place that harbors these criminals protects them and goes out of their way to try to create questions that would then make them exonerated this report details how much and our system co-mingled to make it apparent that these people should be able to get off spot free even though they clearly clearly did this with intent they had multiple opportunities to stop themselves to stop each other to put text on there instead what do they do they covered their cameras they removed their cameras they reminded each other to move their cameras we watched the video we heard it all why do you need any more investigation how much more clear can it be time after time we see the videos of these people being murdered or tortured or detained unlawfully and without reason with one thing in common every time why is it three minutes can't do anything point of order um was a person cut off mid comment and is that a process that we've agreed upon i can't hear your mute the limit is three minutes no the person before them after saying a swear word suddenly their comment was ended is that was that intentional and is that a process we agreed on uh staff yes i spoke with roger who is in charge of the call-in line he said that that her call dropped and he did not mute them or take her off please proceed next is ellie you have three minutes go ahead hi it's just l um so i'm gonna i'm gonna repeat things that were already said because apparently you all don't know how to listen you can't even sit there with your cameras on and you know you sit there you're no one's paying attention there i don't know what you're doing at your desk um but this whole report after reading this today i don't know why you needed it you didn't need it you have it now you're not going to do anything about it apparently you're just going to pull out pieces of it that um you know tell you what conversations you need to keep having and what you could sit at your desk and think about doing but apparently never do while literal murderers are walking around on the streets in the communities that you are supposed to protect and take care of and i don't even know how to keep talking about this without shaking and wanting to just you know keep using expletives that apparently we're not allowed to use because then you'll get cut off and you all will lie about someone's call being dropped you'll literally do anything anything to silence your community to silence the people and he made us sit around for i've been on the phone for an hour and 35 minutes i called in at 6 50 and this is absolutely unacceptable it's murderous it is anti-democratic it is everything that you claim not to be and i don't understand how you sleep at night i don't know how you live with yourself so i wish that i could keep speaking for my three minutes but i think i'm done thank you mayor cosmo mcconnell thank you sir uh did we not agree uh last year that we needed at least six of us on camera for this to be considered a quorum um uh city attacks because some members turned off their cameras right as public invited to be heard begin um city attorney and that is a council decision uh i don't believe that decision was made uh staff mayor this is done guys remember johnson hi i and i should have emailed the entire council i i let our city clerk and city attorney know um i all day have been having issues with my internet and the video's been can intermittent so i apologize and i should have made that announcement so just wanted to let you all know that thanks mayor councilman mario helps oh councilman i know we keep saying we need to say that and i just want to say i'm also listening i'm again off camera because i'm holding an infant and um honestly based on some of the vicious comments that have been made about me having a child and him on the internet by people i'm not comfortable having him on camera and of course monday nights without child care in a pandemic it is difficult with the sleep routine being disrupted so i am here i am listening um but i'm also off camera just wanted to share that i am here and listening thank you council uh thank you council member so i will proceed with it uh next is melissa you have three minutes melissa looks like she dropped off next is i'd like to say i'm here listening also thank you you go hard you guys hear me okay we can thank you wonderful good evening mayor and members of the aurora city council my name is deepa hari i'm a brown woman a college student and a public servant i'm a colorado citizen and have been for over 20 years and i'm here to add to the overwhelming number of voices demanding justice from the city of aurora they were a police department and they were a fire rescue for elijah mcclain's unlawful treatment and brutal murder in addition to the independent commission several proposed recommendations for changes in the policies and practices of the aurora police department and fire rescue the report found that police officers did not have a legal basis to force mr mcclain to stop walking to frisk him or to use a chokehold on him as confirmed in pages seven and eight of the report apd invaded accountability at every step of the way and their major crimes division quote failed to present a neutral objective version of the facts and seemingly ignored contrary evidence in its report to the district attorney of colorado's 17th judicial district thus i urge the members of the aurora city council to take action and push for the termination of police officers randy rodema and nathan woodyard additionally i urge the members of the council to terminate aurora fire rescue medic jeremy cooper and aurora fire lieutenant peter chichunek in their role to wrongfully administer ketamine to mr mclean against his will i urge the council to take these actions not only to rightfully enforce the consequences against these individuals in their unlawful and deadly actions against mr mclean but also to serve as a harshen of deterrent to any police officer who defied justice to support the actions of these officers and who even went so far as to mockingly reenact this crime at mr mclean's memorial site in a heartless inhumane act of gross and justice it is crucial that the termination of these these individuals take place to provide some degree of closure to the family and to provide a sense of accountability to every coloradan to people of color like me and especially to black coloradans tonight and the days that follow all eyes are on you members of the aurora city council to do what is right show us tonight the legal system can't do wrong by its citizens and get away with it you have heard a lot of unfiltered unbridled anger today from your constituents and it is your duty to hear every single word of it i would like to thank the council once again for listening to my remarks and i urge you to listen to my fellow citizens here today who advocate for justice and accountability and take proper action thank you thank you next is caroline you have three minutes hi can you hear me yes we can okay thank you very much um i just want to say that i do agree with some other people who have commented that i'm not um very satisfied with the way that this meeting was conducted when you tell the public to call in at 7 00 pm but start taking phone calls from the public at 6 40 and only take a few and then stop for almost an hour and a half again afterwards but more to the point i am a colorado native and i am very proud to be from here i come from a long line of colorado natives but elijah's murder truly is a disgrace to our state i want to clarify for the council and the panel reviewer that elijah's death was not a quote-unquote uh incident but it was a murder like many others i'm calling to demand accountability and justice for elijah and his family as much as the city commends the stuff the police have taken um since his death they need to address the blatant and rampant racism throughout our entire system of policing first response and government because no matter what steps they take such as um banning the clutter hold or not using ketamine the racism supremacy and lack of accountability is what will continue to kill our citizens this is this excuse me this is a systemic issue that needs to be addressed i in a witness tonight and many other nights since his death many others across the entire world demand that the officers and others involved in his murder be fired and charged and that you all hold yourselves accountable to the changes that need to be made so that our minority brothers and sisters stop being murdered by the system that should be there to protect them why was he stopped in the first place why did they continue to use excessive force when he begged for his life he was a 140 pound man and it was clear that there was a lack of critical thinking and a more sinister motive as video evidence showed that he was not fighting back how will that change going forward and what do you all plan to do to change the systemic racism that continues to happen because that is truly truly what needs to change this is a much deeper issue then don't use that uh specific hold or that specific drug why are these people being stopped in the first place why are they being targeted by our system that needs to change thank you thank you next is uh cherik i'm sorry i mispronounced that name i'm sure uh no you got it right thank you i want you to truly try to digest these words with me i can't breathe i have my id right here my name is elijah mcclain that's my house i was just going home i'm an introvert i'm just different that's all i'm so sorry i have no gun i don't do that stuff i don't do any fighting why are you attacking me i don't even kill flies i don't eat meat but i don't judge people i don't judge people who do eat meat forgive me all i was trying to do was become better i will do it i will do anything sacrifice my identity i'll do it you all are phenomenal you are beautiful and i love you try to forgive me i'm a mood gemini i'm sorry i'm so sorry ow that really hurt you are all very strong teamwork makes the dream work oh i'm sorry i wasn't trying to do that i just can't breathe correctly those were alleged mclean's last words before his life was taken from him by a worripedian fire rescue i'd like you to ask yourself if this was your child would you still accept allowing these cops and paramedics on the street this young beautiful soul was murdered while simply walking home dancing along the way imagine knowing those were your child's last words before getting killed imagine knowing you could run into your child's murderers at any point still in uniform tell me how you feel how desperately would you fight to get their killers fired and tried well councilmen and women you have the power to push for justice this has been covered up for far too long but you have the ability to use your influence to bring justice to this murder people get fired every day for things like being late times not meeting goals but these cops and paramedics don't get fired for the literal murder of an innocent human being quite frankly if you personally can't push to fire these killer cops and paramedics you have blood on your hands and you're the ones who have to live with not doing everything you can to hold these murderers accountable don't be complacent thank you for listening thank you next is pamela you have three minutes hello yes go ahead oh okay sorry um so i want to start off by saying that um the way that this um council is being conducted is straight bs um we were told to call in that seventh um it's 8 40. i just got done working a 12-hour shift as a nurse and i've been on hold now for almost two hours i think it was delivered to get people to hang up to get people to silence to sign with their voice i also would like to ask for other council members to turn on their cameras is that possible dave gruber hello yeah well i was asking for other council members to turn on their cameras and to give us respect um again i've been on hold for a very long time i'm tired i'm exhausted but to get to what i was calling about um the fact that i even have to call and ask for elijah mclean to have some type of justice for these cops and for the emt to be fired um it's disgusting i literally have no words um i'm so angry i'm so hurt so hurt for his mom so hurt for his family um for the community that has to continue to beg you guys to do the right thing that you guys do the right thing while it is a movie um scooter the movie shooter knocking even saying his name was brought in by cops no harm done to him no scratches no nothing elijah mcclain has killed the walking block he was killed for walking black for being black he was a 140 pound um um young man like literally the size were mean there's no way that they had to use the force that they did there's no way um that they could have mistakenly mistakenly um um thought he was 190 pounds like this is a people that take license um people that are supposed to do no harm this was intentionally done they murdered him they murdered him please listen mayor kaufman okay because i'm talking to you guys and this is real life think if this was your family member this was your son if you guys choose to ignore and not pick accountability for this report there will be outrage there will be outrage we will not be silent it's been 18 months ma'am your three minutes are up thank you all i can say is do the right thing because we will not go away our next speaker is nicholas nicholas you'll have three minutes our system is about to do an automatic reset at four hours so if you hear music start to play just wait it will uh resolve itself and will give you your full three minutes uh you're live go ahead either you hear me all right we sure cam so it comes as no surprise to me that you attempt to attempt to silence public outcry by pushing your comments to the end of a drawn-out bureaucratic time-wasting meetings you all sit there and you make jokes about budgeting for dinner in a hotel while a mother greets her son a year and a half later and she still has not received justice all of us knew back in 2019 that elijah was murdered by your police you knew this fact as well your intentional cover-up cover-up is documented as is the actions of the police who killed him until you prosecute elijah's killers and i will name officers woodyard rosenblatt rodima paramedic cooper and lieutenant chichen nick you remain as guilty as these killers the blood of an innocent child is on their hands and your will when we add prosecution to the fullest extent of the law we no longer will sit idly while cops get away with murder in every county of this country i would also like to call out the council members who have chosen to take themselves off camera and as well as those who originally wore blue flag shirts during the first hearing this must not be important enough for you surely the budgeting of this two-hour meeting was more important than for you to listen to your constituents the only people that you have chosen to arrest during this crisis have been those who exercise the constitutional and human right to protest this act of evil if you have forgotten who you serve allow me to remind you we the people fund your paychecks and we fund the budget for the murderous police force and we the people will no longer sit silent do your jobs thank you next is lex you have three minutes hello can you hear me we can thank you so i want to echo some of the anger [Music] frustrations [Music] mindset are lost you cannot replace a human life and it grieves me so much that we cannot replace this person's life that has been stolen by the aurora police force and paramedics um first of all um i echo of others that have called for you to fire and prosecute officers and medics involved um that is a very basic first step to making sure that we achieve justice like i am just two years it's almost been maybe more than that i don't know time is a flat circle but like you need to do more and more quickly this is this is an emergency situation you're not treating it that way um also do not let them suck taxpayer taxpayers dry as they retire or go on administrative leave need to be straight out fired no more taxpayer money for murderers who need to be on criminal trial um do not give the officers and medics good recommendations to get jobs at other departments it's a very common thing that police after you know just going through and murdering people or doing other acts of crime we'll just go to another place to get a job um we need to stop that here um then that kind of ties into the larger term policies that i think you need to enact after this one of which is stop accepting police officers with disciplinary records from other cities and states especially with criminal direct things on their record um we can't continue to allow that or you're just going to have the influx of the same bad apples that make the entire batch go bad um you need to investigate the entire department's report for racism and police brutality and purge all those people out of the system they cannot serve the public and protect the public if they are killing the public i think that is very basic um all of the body cameras being conveniently dislodged are off during this and such a large amount of people that were involved in that call um just to see if there's a larger problem with that department that needs to be addressed before anything it's it is a by the way commonly known that body cameras being dislodged for off is the tactic that please teach among themselves to avoid accountability to the to the people they need to be accountable to which ties in the next next point that i have which is that you need to create an independent police oversight committee to investigate complaints brought against the police complete idiocy that they're allowed to investigate themselves and that needs that practice to bend um there needs to be a clearly defined workflow for transition of plan of care to from police to medical medics need to be able to make an independent investigation that is not tinted and skewed by what the police are saying um not that you won't always get accuracy information but there are cases where clearly this is problem where the information is manipulated by about two your three minutes okay thank you um most of all i just do silence is complicity do not be complicit in this thank you very much thank you next is meg go ahead you have three minutes hello um i am just as others had done today here to talk about elijah mclean and the inability to take action in regards to this it was very um upsetting to me tonight um but i am speaking to aurora's inability to provide justice in the murder of elijah mclean i didn't know him personally but elijah mclean was a colleague he was a fellow massage therapist he's part of my community and he's part of our massage community eliza mclean's mother was quoted today i'm happy elijah is no longer labeled a suspect that he is labeled a victim a year and a half later he can only now say that but that is not justice tonight awards mayor mike kaufman said that mcclain's that elijah's death was horrific and remains a wound in aurora he also said we cannot move forward as a city unless we understand the problems we have i would say to the mayor you cannot move forward even after understanding the problems which we know are systemic but you cannot move forward until there is justice for elijah we can't bring him back back after being brutally murdered at the hands and watchful eyes of aurora's officers paramedics and fire we can't take back the failures of the major crime units report or the district attorney's failures but you can find ways to bring those involved to their own justice fire nathan woodyard randy rojima jason rosenblatt jeremy cooper and peter niak i'm sorry i'm not doing well with my words uh murder charges are necessary also from the state attorney general phil weiser's investigation tonight i understand there was more on the agenda than this but with this investigative report just dropping i expected a more somber tone from all tonight every giggle and lighthearted laugh tonight from some of the council members when speaking on other subjects seems cold and seems heartless i would ask a council member ma'am you're three minutes i would ask the council members to hold some space for the seriousness of this i ask you to keep this in mind moving forward thank you thank you next is melanie you have three minutes hi my name is melanie stacy i am a member of the aurora community i grew up here i am an educator here i used to work at the boys and girls club where elijah mclean was a member as well first off officers would work woodyard rodima and rosenblatt as well as the paramedics cooper and chatunic need to be fired and prosecuted it's absurd that the only people to receive charges are the peaceful protesters without whom we wouldn't have this fort day i went out to emphasize the details of this report released today the caller said they believed there was no weapon or danger the police said the same yet escalated risking him in under 10 seconds with no reasonable or objective cause they escalated to forcing him on the ground because he was quote tense in less than a minute three men against one 140 pounds five foot six young man i'm tired of young men and children young black men and children expected to have more stress management skills than those charged to serve and protect they lied saying he was struggling violently the 140 pound five six six five foot six boy against three police officers body cam footage and audio show he was apologizing begging for his life explaining to them struggling to breathe and vomiting paramedics stood by during this and they gave him ketamine after he was already unconscious for a minute there was no internal investigation this was a cover-up rosenblatt took a selfie mocking this young man's death showing absolutely no remorse they are guilty of murder and at the very least they should not have their livelihood funded with their tax dollars this is a systematic issue enforcing body chains is not enough they turn them off they lie requiring different uses of force does not work we need to defund we need to reallocate resources to people better equipped to handle these situations thank you for your time thank you next is dana you have three minutes go ahead hello can you hear me we can hello go right ahead okay i'm here like many others to discuss the disgusting things that have gone on in aurora colorado and it's hard to even talk about because it's so upsetting the fact that this has gone on for 18 months is way too long and we need to immediately fire woodyard rhodama rosenblatt cooper and to tunic right now there is absolutely no reason that they should not have already been fired after that we need to prosecute them immediately and it needs to come from attorney general phil weiser's asap there's absolutely no excuses this has gone on long enough and then we need to address gruber bergen and bergen the council members who were blue lives matter shirts last year and all others that had turned off their camera tonight and refused to listen to their constituents we see you we notice who's listening and who's not to continue we need to address the systemic issues that have led to this outcome we need to stop accepting police officers from other cities and states with criminal records body cameras are not enough we need to watch independent investigations into police brutality and racism within this system and we need to absolutely defund the police and reallocate budgets to people who are more prepared to handle situations like mental health crisis for example additionally we need to look into and arrest people who are calling in making baseless claims based on racism that led to elijah mcclain's death he was not the first he will not be the last i need you to step up now and make change we are watching you and we will not be silenced i promise you that there will be change whether it's from you or from the people and lastly we also need to free and drop all charges to the peaceful protesters who are fighting for elijah's justice and for all black lives putting them behind bars is absolutely disgraceful and disgusting and shows your true colors i'm not going to thank you because there are there is no thanks you're sitting on this right now when you should be taking action that's all i have to say thank you next is jen you have three minutes go ahead hello my name is jen i'm from denver psl and i also have my nephew here hi i'm joshua and um i'm eight years old and i live in aurora colorado he won justice for elijah mcclain and fire in jail those killer cops now apd could elijah claim and he deserves my strength i also want to say we want woody yard rodima rosenblatt cooper and coochie all fired prosecuted i've been a constituent of aurora for many years as a person that is black you know that if you live in aurora you will get harassed by apd that is not anything that is hidden everyone knows that elijah mcclain did not have to die the cops who killed him should be prosecuted nothing less why because they killed someone everyone in aurora also know that apd is the biggest gang that we have out here they're gonna stick up for each other council people are going to where their blue lines matter and be happy about that and throw it in our face but you know what it is up to us the people the constituents the taxpayers of this city to bring justice to elijah mclean and to stop having this brush under the rug because now we see this report now you brought it to our eyes now is the time to act upon it and we will not stop the only thing aurora has done for us is kill our brothers and sisters kill people who are undocumented kill people like elijah mclean kill the oppressed people do nothing for us but harass us and do nothing at all roll your eyes back us on these interviews we're tired of it and when you get tired you keep banging at the door until our voices are heard and you know what we're going to keep going until elijah mclean gets his justice and until these killer cops are off our street not harassing our kids of color not making our kids scared anymore not making our kids scared that we're going to get killed and pulled over by aurora police and we don't know if we're going to make it home or not you know what this is the last straw for us as constituents of the war we're going to keep fighting for our brother elijah and we're going to keep doing it until y'all hear us because we are the people we demand this and we will get what we demand thank you next is justin you have three minutes go ahead thank you i can't believe how many people tonight have offered you all thoughtful solutions while most of what i heard you guys do is sit and joke and laugh and go on with business as usual thank you to the few of you who did address it directly and who took it seriously and offered your own condolences to his family it's unconscionable but it's even a question what to do with the officers involved that that's even a question that they should be de-uniformed and off the streets at a minimum immediately it's so disturbing and you some of you sat and laughed tonight and joke and talk about upcoming projects and the most meaningless trivial it's cold it's ruthless it's brutal like i don't i don't understand how you can sit there with your cameras off all right thank you next is hannah go ahead you have three minutes so why don't you start over you have three minutes oh okay um hi my name is hannah i wanted to start by saying i disagree with the way the city council meeting has been held um why do you push public comment to the end of the meeting how would you feel if the public comment of the murder of your child was pushed to the end of a meeting i'm a professional engineer and the purchase of gravel lake water storage facility adjacent to the south platte river near brighton can wait as a professional engineer who designs facilities such as this the storage facility can wait public comment matters more than any city project heading your way i shouldn't be terrified of the police but stories like elijah mcclain chill my bones to the core and make me downright terrified of the police therefore i'm calling in support of firing nathan randy jason jeremy and peter as stated by so many people before me we didn't need a long investigation to tell us what we already knew the aurora police did not have a legal basis to stop frisk or choke an innocent young 23 year old he had his whole life ahead of him so what can we do now put firm action behind the investigation no more impunity we are better than this you are better than this your children deserve a better future than what we have right now we need trusted partners in the police department i have family who are police officers and we will not have trusted partners in the police department if nathan randy jason jeremy and peter keep their jobs every single officer and paramedic need to be held accountable by being fired charged for murder and convicted for murder we need trusted partners in this police department now take action accordingly your community needs this your children need this i need this and most importantly elijah mcclain needs this i know you know he was an innocent human being walking peacefully in the streets just look at his smile and his pictures think of his infinite joy he was a happy person imagine if these police officers murdered your children in the street the way elijah maclean was murdered imagine if your child's joy was stripped away from them can you imagine never seeing your child joyful again i'm sure you would be absolutely devastated i would be and i don't even have kids yet like i would be so tired of my cat was killed um just trying to put it into perspective but please take action as if your kid was murdered by nathan randy jason jeremy and peter take action as if when you leave this meeting tonight you won't be seeing your child afterwards because nathan randy jason jeremy and peter murdered your children ma'am your time is what happened okay one last sentence that's what happened to elijah's mom please act accordingly make this case a priority as if it was your child who was murdered while walking peacefully in the streets thank you next is alyssa you have three minutes go ahead thank you it's alisa can you hear me sorry lisa yeah go ahead awesome um yeah i want to echo the things that other people said about how this meeting has been held i've been sitting on the phone for almost two hours to talk about this and the words that came before me really resonated with me but beyond that what resonated with me really strongly were the council members that declined to speak on this issue your silence speaks so loud and clear i don't know what we as human beings can do to elicit empathy from you for the fact that this beautiful young person was murdered at the hands of the people that are supposed to be protecting us and taking care of us um it's unbelievable that we're even having a conversation about action right now these things have been so well documented and so well described when will it be enough what will be the straw that breaks your back to take care of the community that is paying your salary i um i feel like the expectation for people to come with reasonable thoughts and for the person that came offering such thoughtful solutions thank you it's more than i heard this entire meeting um i don't know how many reports it's going to take for you to read what's already been said these people murdered him they deserve to be prosecuted for what they did they deserve to not have our money going to pay their salaries it's enough i don't know when things are going to change you wore blue lives matter shirts to protest what he was murdered nothing was happening to the police officers they're protected by you you should be protecting the people that have elected you the people that are paying for your salary it's unbelievable and these things will continue to happen we will continue to have things to talk to you about until you do something to change this so do the right thing and step up for these people we deserve to be protected not you not the police thank you actually not thank you but i'm done speaking all right thank you josh is next uh you have three minutes go ahead hello so we all understand the situation at this point i would like to yield my time in equal proportion to each council member and mayor kaufman so that they can say yes or no whether or not they're willing to and able to commit at this time to taking action to firing these five people nathan randy jason jeremy and peter mayor we're not responding please continue [Music] i would like to let the silence stand for the rest of my time please proceed all right next up is joel you have three minutes go ahead can you hear me yes sir can you hear me okay cool so i read the report and it's a shame that the bar is so low in this country with regards to black lives but i'm actually surprised at its conclusions but the truth is this report only confirms what the entire community integral in denver already knew which was that the officers involved in the murder of elijah mcclain were absolutely in the wrong from the first few seconds of the encounter with him that there was absolutely no legal basis whatsoever to stop and tristan that the paramedics were in the wrong for not even examining elijah before injecting him with enough ketamine to debate a horse that the initial investigators intentionally crafted questions that were designed to exonerate woodyard rodima and rosenblatt that this was nothing but cold blood and murder and that senior officials in the city government were involved in the cover-up now i'm not thanking anyone who spent the last 18 months gaslighting an entire community only to come around and say oh well looks like you were right even though we saw with our own eyes what happened on video now some of y'all might be desensitized to publicized lynchings of black people given the history of this country um bergen gruber and bergens i'm looking at you but we are not we saw what happened we are done with conversations we are done with platitude we are done with privileged checking and empty overtures on black history month we are done with foot dragging and passing the buck we are done being given the run around the absolute bare minimum is that woodyard rodima cooper and chichenya be fired yesterday the bare minimum now a common refrain i hear from a lot of people especially my black brothers and sisters in the streets also never charge these officers because they don't care about us they of course referring to politicians city officials and the whole power structure in aurora and i actually disagree um i think you do care i just think you care in the negative i think you're very concerned with how people think and feel because you care about keeping us contained into dude at all costs because you don't actually view us as people you view us as subjects to you charging these officers that send a message to people that you stop on every day that we actually do have collective power and if the peasants get that idea who knows what'll happen next maybe they'll start making other demands like uh the backwards anti-homeless bigoted mayor stepped down who knows who knows but that puts you in sort of a strategic bind because you know that if you continue to take positions against the world of people then that gives them the basis to be even more active and more vocal especially since there is no evidence of a mythical culture change in the apd and they continue to hold a reputation for being a bunch of sadistic sociopaths that are bound to brutalize someone else in the near future so with all that in mind i want to encourage y'all to do the right thing by the people we don't need any more commissions we don't need any more committees we don't need any more oversight discussions would your vodima rosenblatt cooper to chineat fire the ones that have not been fired already and charge them all with murder of elijah mclean thank you next is laura laura go ahead hi can you hear me yes we can hi my name is lara hawkis and after waiting almost two hours now to speak i have to say this is really embarrassing for the city of aurora you have had your cameras off and your constituents couldn't see all of your faces it's really disgraceful and frankly i'm convinced that you're not even listening and your computers aren't even unused so you would assume that if you're a public servant you would be more visible to the public however i'm calling and about the murder of elijah mclean after independent report made it clear that apd officers would your rosenblock in redeema did not have legal basis to stop frisk for chocolate mcclain i'm demanding for the immediate termination and prosecution as well as the two paramedics that failed to administer care to elijah or even examine him for before injecting him with a massive dose of ketamine i demand their immediate termination as well an innocent life was lost and justice must be served these people deserve to be fired now i would like to use some of my time as a moment of silence for elijah we will not go away we will not be silent i yield my time thank you next is uh catherine rivera go ahead you have three minutes hello my name is catherine rivera i'm an active duty military member having served around the world ire nathan woodyard randy rodima jason rosenblatt jeremy cooper and peter kuchinick now the searing independent report released today makes it absolutely clear that apd officers bloody rosenblatt and rodima did not have the legal basis to stop risk or choke elijah mclean we demand their immediate termination and prosecution aurora fire paramedic cooper and lieutenant shuchenek failed to administer care to elijah or even examine him before injecting him with a massive dose of ketamine we demand their immediate termination as well this report also makes it clear that the aurora police department feeler fire department district attorney dave young and city of aurora all conducted the follow-up not in the manner of a true investigation but in a deliberate cover-up shielding the killers we highly recommend everyone read the report no more impunity this report removes every excuse for continuing to employ these killers fire them now we continue to demand murder charges from state attorney general phil weisser's investigation there is no doubt that the grounds exist to bring in [Applause] no more excuses no more excuses fire woodyard rodima frozen black cooper and coochie now just finished speaking thank you next is emily you have three minutes go ahead council members mute uh their mind can't yeah it's kim i can oh on the chat sorry can i can you hear me yes we are cam we'll start for three minutes now go ahead hi um i'm calling in from buffalo new york um i i read about this case this summer um and this is i i come from a conservative town and so i specifically wanted to speak to ruber burzen bergman um i don't know if you're conservative you're trying to hold a party line you're trying to please your constituents a mother lost her son and you wore t-shirts supporting the police why for what who does that what kind of people do that i understand as city council people you have you don't have all the power in the world but you've done you've done harm you've actively done harm to people and you were disrespectful in this meeting and i do at least you know who spoke on this is the council members who are people of color who are women and then you sit in silence and smirk or be on your phone how do you live with yourself elijah mclean was he was murdered in the street in your town because you failed to protect as a citizen if you're you don't care why why don't you care why don't you care because it's white supremacy at its root and if you're not willing to do the work to change your town which you're not you want to uphold that and i hope i guess i guess i want to speak to the council members who do care about the loss of this incredible person's life i hope you do something to change and to outline these voices of racists and that's what i want to say thank you thank you next is ashley you have three minutes go ahead uh hello i do want to thank my uh fellow callers because i think you all have you know offered such in-depth perspective that unfortunately most of the council members have clearly not been willing to consider [Music] i'm hoping against hope that somehow this report makes you actually realize what is happening i know it can't all just be ignorant because of people mentioned wearing blue live matter shirts directly after this incident when you know as people mentioned this was a murder um there was that's not an exact duration or anything that is actually what happened and even before this report it is so clear that that is what occurred um and also it is not just a one-time event this is not a one-time tragedy that we can say oh my gosh i can't believe it happened you know this could never happen again in our town no it does all the time and it definitely will again especially if there are no consequences that is how white supremacy is being held upheld in this country if things like this happen there are no consequences and then people become more and more emboldened to just execute innocent people so like everyone else i want the fallen people to be fired and prosecuted nathan woodyard randy rojima jason rosenblatt jeremy cooper peter kitchunic that is the very least of what needs to happen and you know as previous callers have said they have offered so many thoughtful uh solutions and ways forward and to at the very least hear that this is a priority for y'all to see that any it takes any kind of priority in your mind would be the very first step but there is at the very least saying what you intend to do and that you intend to bring about some kind of justice to prevent this from happening again and to actually protect the people that you are being paid by and are being told and sworn to serve would be the very first step and a minimum i'm done all right thank you next is jeremy jeremy you have three minutes hi can you hear me yes sir um so hi there my name is jeremy i'm a member of the party for socialism and liberation i'm from denver um i just want to say i sincerely doubt y'all would have had uh the guts to do with what you just did with public comment if we had been in person and i don't think the people would have let you uh but you know i went ahead and stayed on until the very end uh like you apparently decided we had to at some point randomly um so hey this new investigation tells us you know what we the people already knew um oh by the way some people have thanked you for this report um this investigation but i know that this was the direct result of our historic mobilization this past summer and and the mcclain family's heroic persistent in the persistence in the face of this oppression um but anyway back to the report uh the cops and the emts not only acted racistly inhumanely all these things we've come to expect of them but also clearly and importantly violated department policy stunningly the cops also had the advantage of a softball interview conducted by their fellow officers and this is according to the facts of your own investigation and you know this is like an episode of the wire but like 20 times worse they're getting coached on just the right things to say at just the right moment to get off the hook i really want to know do you think that same treatment was afforded to the anti-racist protesters that were arrested this summer do you think they got someone to coach them through or do you think they were thrown in jail for over a week unless they're to rot and are now facing decades in prison i wonder what the difference is when uh they're getting police interviews uh and you know at this point i have a long list of people who i've been telling you all for a while should be charged add the cops who did those interviews to that list because this is corruption they should not allow to be served on this force as well um and you know i haven't had the chance to hear everyone else was calling at the very beginning but it sounds like you are trying to claim that you don't have you know the authority to fire folks um and if you don't like who who does that that's the crazy thing you're like the authority in aurora the city of aurora you have power and if you're telling me that if another city employee went off and i don't know negligently murdered someone not even negligently aggressively murdered someone you couldn't find a way to get them fired you couldn't figure out you know who their boss is call their supervisor put in a word you know you just it's impossible you can't do that i just don't understand then maybe maybe some we should all get jobs in aurora city government because no one can be fired apparently um and you know furthermore you could also give the elijah to mclean family you could give them money they have been fighting for any form of justice for so long and you all have called his son a suspect for so long to deny him any kind of remuneration any kind of financial not i don't want to say benefit because their child died but you have fought them on it this is crazy you all are you know what you could pass a resolution saying you know what hey a.g uh wiser we will actually want to see this charge we the people of aurora we the city of aurora would like to see these cops charged pass that resolution tonight if you want um i know my time might be coming out so i'd also ask anyone who thinks that they might be you know friendly to the people calling in please do an official roll call just your time good resolution to have a roll call in the middle of this meeting i'm not gonna stop talking because you all made me way so i'm going to make you wait so you can either cut me off or let me keep talking but listen do an official roll call because all right next is taylor taylor you have three minutes go ahead i guess i'll pick up where he left off um and after that official roll call if we could do that right now councilmember hiltz is here marcano is here who's here ergan's here is here johnston's here there'll be no further back and forth mayor's here gardner is here okay great um my name is taylor gardner and i feel completely embarrassed to be a namesake associated but as everyone is covered tonight we all as grown adults should understand the weight and there is no space to stain ignorance anymore we we all know what needs to happen and if you are not willing to take those actions then expect this to continue expect people to continue to show up for a human being who in no way in no way deserves the treatment that was brought against him by people who are supposed to be trained continuously to know better in every form and facet nothing that happened on that night was acceptable and if you are not willing to take the actions that are so blatantly obviously necessary then then i don't know what else to say i will ask to keep my remainder of my time as a moment of silence and reflection for all of the members of this council to consider what they i know you know what you need to do there is there's no way you can't know so please just take a moment to reflect on why you haven't all right thank you janice who's next janice you have three minutes there and city council members can you hear me yes we can speaking tonight on behalf of elijah mclean because eliza mclean is no longer here to speak for yourself eliza did speak and plead for his life the night he was murdered and nobody listened nobody listened vomited from being choked an officer threatened to stick his dogs on him as a citizen i demand the immediate determination and prosecution of all all aurora officers involved because they had no legal basis to stop risk or choke elijah mcclain no moving to other departments or administrative leave they also had no basis for turning off their body cams colorado is an atwell at will in colorado we have at will employment many of us that have spoken tonight or are on this call could be fired for not showing up at work for no reason at all because our company was bought by a new owner there's absolutely no reason for anybody involved to not be fired at this point i also demand the immediate termination and punishment of our fire paramedic cooper and lieutenant who failed to administer care to elijah mclean or even examine him before injecting him with a massive dose of ketamine and demanding removal of the people involved in major crimes investigation of these events in this murder independent report made public today removed every excuse for these actions no more excuses fire and hold them accountable now i'm also pleading for the action not conversation but action and change and training but this never happens again i would add to that that many of us are different but also good people we deserve the service and protection from our officers and paramedics elijah did not receive that the night he was murdered we are done talking and we demand action thank you um maria is next you have three minutes go ahead hi can you hear me yes we can okay hi i am a colorado resident i'm also a white woman and i too walk at night to the store and to get exercise i dance with music and my headphones i do get very cold and wear layers of warmth and hats and you know bundle up in this country i would never think that that would be suspicious and result in police killing me for elijah all it took was his skin color being black he committed no crime in america being in college you may get murdered by our aurora police you have the opportunity to hold these murders accountable and protect aurora residents there needs to be accountability for the people that call in to the police as racist claims that result in police murders this is a 23-year-old young man who played his violin for unadopted kittens peaceful protesters were arrested at the time where the violinists were just playing in an open area just to remember his life i would like to know when you will fire fire and charge the following people involved in the murder of elijah mclean nathan woodyard randy rodema jason rosenblatt jeremy cooper and peter from the verified report aurora police delight violated their authority officers never told him that he was suspected of a crime no evidence of a pat down that led to a takedown failed basic failed to ask basic critical justification of use of force and the unproper use of ketamine thank you to those of the city council members that have spoken up about elijah tonight it's embarrassing to see the members that don't even have their cameras on tonight it is your job to listen to the people that have elected you and the least you can do to turn your cameras on as the city council if you do not pursue justice and the charges of the police officers and medics you will have outreach from the community contributing to his death you have an opportunity to do the right thing we can't move forward until these five people are charged and held accountable and i would like to thank the one caller in that did ask the mayor and all of the city council members on to speak upon charges and left that moment of silence because i think that is very remarkable and should be remembered in history and i think going forward it's what you all do as city council members to bring justice to elijah mclean and his family that's all thank you jared is next you have three minutes can you hear me yes sir go ahead thank you good evening council members i want to thank those council members that decided to speak up and voice their opinion and their thoughts on how elijah had was murdered by local law enforcement you know i may be repeating many points that have been made ahead of me but that doesn't mean it should be ignored elijah mcclain was murdered by nathan woodyard randy rodina jason rosenblatt jeremy cooper and peter chitchinak these officers and paramedics took an oath to protect and serve the community of aurora after the results of the investigation it is clear that they are not capable of doing so and need to be convicted accountability has been talked about a lot but i would like to focus on character character is often talked about as how you face diversity but the character that need that really matters is how you act when no one is looking council members this applies to you as well you took an oath to be a public servant and the public is demanding justice for the murder of elijah mcclain aurora is unsafe and unjust until those that took this young man's life are fired and blocked from getting a job in that field this is not difficult to pursue since it is done in other job positions in different states and different countries moving forward we require that apd to enforce disciplinary action when officers do not have body cams on or when a report is filed against an officer for excessive force the city of aurora has lost the public's trust and they need to make an effort to bring that trust back blue lives are not a race they chose their job and they need to be accountable release my time thank you justin is next uh go right ahead you've got three minutes hello can you hear me yes we can okay great i just want to say first of all thank you to everyone who's waited on the line to speak their mind about this i am a resident of colorado for 17 years and i've been waiting on the phone for over two hours and i just want to say i can't believe that we're even still having this conversation it is so absurd that all these people are waiting on the line to call in and talk about this case i have not read the new report that came out and i don't need to read the new report that came out because i knew from the very first evidence that ever came out of video content of these police officers murdering elijah mclean that it was a murder it was obviously a murder they murdered him on camera and it seemed like they were i mean these cops think that they're on an episode of tv or something they're just murdering people like some sort of action movie well what if it was one of your kids that was murder how would you feel what if one of you got murdered by cops is this acceptable is this the message that overall police wants to send to their city into the world not like it's the first time people have been murdered by cops ever since i was a little kid my whole life i've been seeing this but what is aurora going to do about it is that we're going to stand there and just say yeah sure we murder our police department murders people or are you are you going to turn it around and maybe show people what the future could look like how you could change things what is aurora going to do about this how can aurora do it better or what does it take to be a police officer ken is there some sort of screening process because obviously these people in the police office are mentally ill and they need help they shouldn't even be there these people shouldn't be allowed to have this job what if elijah mclean would have murdered one of those cops then what would happen i think it's pretty obvious what needs to happen you all need to take action and these officers who murdered elijah mclean need to be fired and they need to be in jail they need to be persecuted that's all i have to say thank you next is anna you have three minutes go ahead hi there can you hear me yes ma'am we can hi there so my name is anna and like my fellow callers i'm here to voice my concern about the fact that the police officers and emts who participated in the murder of elijah mclean are still employed and on the streets of aurora these things have already been said but they need to be said over and over and over again until we get justice for elijah the fact remains that that young man would still be alive today had he not been approached and attacked unjustly by these officers continuing to employ these killers and to allow them to control the patrol the streets with weapons is an act of violence against the community you are supposed to be serving it is an act of violence against us the only acceptable action is immediate termination followed by murder charges the independent investigation brought up a lot of things that we already knew to be true and now action must be taken for all involved and to uh for all of those who failed to act and appropriately investigate what happened that night we don't need thoughts and feelings and i'm sorry and i feel terrible and i'm disgusted we don't need that anymore we don't need more discussion we don't need more time to talk it over we need action um time's up y'all like you've had plenty of time um i'll keep a brief because you all know by this point what needs to be done um you've seen over and over and over again the truth of what happened and you either choose to ignore it or you just don't care um or you're so wrapped up in this blue live matter stuff that you essentially i mean disregard and disrespect and continue to support attacks against the people in your community who you're supposed to protect and serve and at this point the the term protect and serve is just a joke i can't even hardly bring myself to say it um but anyway i just wanted to show up and show my support and demand justice for elijah mcclain we will never stop demanding justice for him ever um we want murder charges we want these guys off of our streets um justice jerome lives on the claim that's all i have to say thank you thank you next is alex alex here three minutes can you hear me yes sir don't call me sir um so i first want to thank the other callers for uh being on here and uh voicing their concern over elijah mcclain i also want to just call out city council's absolute disrespect for my time and for our time but that should have been clear because you do not have respect for elijah mclean's life um and his time on this planet um so i'm here just like many other people to demand justice for elijah mcclain who was brutally murdered by apd and aurora fire department this is that's something that has been going on uh for so long and we've known the results of this for way too long and the fact that you are all here on this call is that just disgusting to me that we're still talking about this that you still have these crocodile tears um and some of you don't even acknowledge it some of you hide behind at your cameras because you cannot face the people and that is because we are outraged by this we are all completely outraged by this i am an educator in denver public schools and i have many black and latinx students and many of them uh when they saw the results of this case for them this is the just horrific because what you guys are telling with my students is that they can walk out of school and they see murder they can be murdered and their murderers can walk around the streets with their jaw so i am demanding an immediate firing of officers woodyard and rogina and also a paramedic cooper and lieutenant patrick's next um i also want to say that i am as a history teacher this is part of a modern day lynching and you city council members are part of a lynch mob at this point there is blood on your hands you have let this investigation go on for far too long and you are members of lynch mob and for the members that hid behind their cameras in person if you're having this meeting y'all might as well put on your clan mask so uh i'm done with my comment y'all can rot in hell all right next is rose you have three minutes go ahead hi can you hear me we sure can okay um so i've lived in colorado all my life and i'm a black person and i was so shocked to hear that this kind of level of racism existed i can't believe elijah mcqueen's murderers are still free do you guys in office actually want to make a difference because i don't see any actual work getting done people all over the world are talking about this case and it's catching momentum in mainstream news i'm not sure if you know how this makes colorado look but see look i'm sorry you guys look racist and heartless like complete jokes for letting these people walk around freely and still work for the government after murdering and doing their jobs incorrectly they have no reason to stop injecting kill elijah i've heard pops and medics get fired from us it's been 18 months there's nothing left to discuss i mean you guys have such an easy time arresting the peaceful peaceful protesters fighting for elijah my question is is this what you want your legacy and office to look like and after you councilwoman's versions you may not remember me but i know you i went to school with your daughter and we were close i've spoken to you i've been to your home is victoria proud of you what if what happens to elijah happens to victoria oh wait that won't happen because she's like suppose that's converting for you you are all being watched and the way you guys acted tonight will be made public this will spread and if you're asking for an international public shaming then you're gonna get it if you think 60 calls is bad way to get 60 000 calls because that's what's next we will continue to protest we tweet etc every day until something is done at this point you're forcing the public to do your job for you doing the right thing isn't as hard as it seems but you guys make it seem like it is i'm not sure why you have your positions if you can't do anything right and these times evil will not win justice will win and you guys think this may die down at some point but it's not just this will get served and that's all i have today thank you uh sarah is next go right ahead three minutes hi can you hear me yes we can hey hi council members uh so first off uh can you all like wake up right now i know that it's late but groover looks like he's taking a nap um the rest of y'all been scrolling on your phones and yawning through the last 20 minute list of comments in particular yes we can see you we are watching you and you've got people who've been waiting on the phone for almost three hours so you better be listening i can put this shortly and say fire them but i'm gonna use the three minutes you've conceded to permit each community member to speak at the tail end of your ridiculous meeting for council members who are dragging commenters for voicing their outrage and demands show some damn respect the verbal quote abuse that you claim you're experiencing tonight by the way with your screens off and our voices muted is nothing i mean nothing compared to what apd puts our community through every day and let's be absolutely clear the abuse that they put elijah mclean through last year and his family through every day since to shame on you you the aurora city council has put the aurora community and the family of elijah mclean through over a year of trauma and disrespect over an injustice that you permit not to mention the racist violent system that you perpetuate every day that goes by without real consequences for his murderers and the people participating in his murder apd's record of robbing innocent people of their dignity on a regular unchecked basis is notorious around the world and we will not stand for it so congratulations y'all you're famous as a reminder today's published findings confirmed what to be the people of denver and aurora already knew and which by the way many of you and certainly chief wilson knew damn well the excessively brutal and physically violent treatment of elijah mcclain is what caused his death this was no accident folks thousands of people from around the world have told you every way we can that this will not stand the community condemns these individuals but the positions you are in give you the authority to fire all of the individuals and all of the individuals involved to charge all of the names we repeated over and over and over to you tonight for their participation in the murder of elijah mclean justice for elijah mclean drop the charges for the denver anti-racist protesters and you can cut me off now thank you next is elizabeth go ahead you have three minutes uh yeah can you hear me yes you can so you know from grief to disbelief frustration anger distrust despair exasperation exacerbation you're hearing all of us tonight um and i assume you all as stewards that were stewards the stewards of the city of aurora will take some of these at least hopefully to heart i can only i can only hope this 153-page report basically was charged with quote learning the record and making policy recommendations the panel found the facts troubling quote unquote so we know we know that any reasonable person having read this report any reasonable person understand that the officers the three officers and the two ems staff acted with reckless disregard in stopping frisky and choking then administering the ketamine to this 140 pound person who went by the name elijah mcclain therefore thereby causing his death with further reckless disregard for any uncovering of the truth by this major crimes unit b.a.young the youth of forest sports aurora fire apd chief wilson all of that there's a reckless disregard for any any attempt to to find the truth so yes we are asking what are you going to do now we don't want to hear any more conversations we want action we know that this case is like the shot heard around the world right it's the scream and the cry that has been heard around the world and you all are in the very middle of that and what you do now will make a difference are you going to fire these guys are you going to stand up are you going to do something do something that will actually make a difference or allow this gaslighting this trauma this thing has become much bigger than just you and city council to continue that's the question for youtube to answer you demand justice thank you next is aaron uh you have three minutes go ahead awesome can you hear me yes we can cool we need you to fire nathan woodyard randy rodima jason rosenblatt jeremy cooper and peter chichenek for the murder of elijah mclean furthermore i would like you all just to think about what it means to show inaction in the face of a racist murder i want you to continue to consider how your inaction is perceived as cowardice it's not brave to let policy trump actual human life and it is your fault for not using your power to push justice through a system that needs justice when we allow ourselves to be complicit and stand idly by while injustice and oppression continues to happen on our streets to people of color to indigenous people to undocumented immigrants and certainly to black americans when this continues to happen and we do nothing about it we do allow white supremacy to continue to take hold in our streets it's very obvious we have a racist police force that works with politicians who are very corrupt and racist as well and who don't care about what happens on the streets of the people that they need to elect them into the positions of power again we're sick of letting policy dictate what is right and what is wrong morally it's that we can have that we can continue to have discussions like this for decades and know the real semblance of progress or reconciliation is made it's shameful for us to continue to act like this is just the way things are we're asking for more we're going to keep showing up and demanding more because it's time to change the world it's been time to change the world and you feel it in you too when something is wrong we allow this kind of behavior to become the common place it feels bad in our bones and justice is going to continue to call itself so again to get justice fire nathan woodyard randy rodima jason rosenblatt jeremy cooper peter chichanek and can victim of murder that's what they did having these earnest conversations for hours at a time and i've been on the phone for three hours waiting to talk to you about this it is important to continue to show up for justice in our community and if you are not listening you will not be in office next turn it is time to change the way our policy operates so that we can effect so we can grow an effective community that allows for equality actual equality actual accountability and actual persecution for wrongful murder it's that's what it was there is no confusion about that there should not be the only confusing thing to me is why are you remaining complicit arrest and convict for murder rest in peace elijah mcclain i'm very sorry that nothing else has happened quite yet we're not going to go away all right thank you next is carly you have three minutes hi can you hear me yes we can hello okay um i just wanted to say that y'all need to listen to these constituents and fire woodruff redeemer rosenblatt cooper and just nick this is a ridiculous format that y'all have going on y'all are trying to silence us every step of the way for the past 18 months y'all have done nothing but cover up and lie and try and silence the people demanding justice for this black man who was murdered by your police and fire rescue teams um this is a very shameful of y'all to keep these people on these murderers on your payroll forcing the constituency to pay their paychecks while y'all refuse to do anything about it and i want to go back to an earlier caller who said who asked y'all to respond that to take the position on this tonight and say that y'all are going to do anything about it and y'all responded by saying we aren't responding y'all haven't responded in 18 months 18 months 18 months this is a terror campaign being waged against the city of aurora against the citizens of this city and county estate this is a it's a terror campaign y'all are terrorists dollar terrorism you're a lynch mob in a terror i'm done i'm not going anywhere we're not going anywhere all right thank you next is lily you have three minutes go ahead hello go ahead welcome so i'm just gonna keep it um simple as my peers have put everything on the table for the council members you just need to do the right thing which is to follow these people's demands all of them not just by the officers and paramedics but also create long-term solutions too we will keep showing up until you have listened to all our demands because we voted for you and we gave you that seat and honored to serve us use your privileges and resources because any other citizen that killed a kid would be held responsible they may be held responsible we are here we are speaking up so you need to listen as we have the courage to speak as you cowered behind your cameras and your desks you know this would not happen in a live virtual or in a live meeting so meet our demands we are the people i yield the rest of my time thank you next is katherine you have three minutes go ahead uh yes thank you so much uh thank you everyone i want to thank the callers especially um who have been on the call forever uh riveting meeting guys riveting riveting uh everything stuff um i do want to repeat uh blue lives are not a thing they are an occupation it takes less training than to be a beautician or a barber so we really need to reevaluate that as a general thing also make sure we can replace those blue live matter t-shirts with white supremacy is terrorism t-shirts for everybody on congress we need to um so some suggestions also this is a point um someone brought up how many emails y'all received across the country and how some of them come across internationally and now sometimes those can seem like spam because they're templated i do want to remind you all that a lot of organizations use templated emails for outreach so when a lot of us sign petitions and contact you all through that it's because you're using a templated email so please read every one of them so i think one huge thing would be giving authority to emt or paramedics because they also took an oath which is cause no further harm which they failed at in this case um but if you're sitting there as a paramedic or a medical professional watching someone puke and experience cardiac arrest and you're not allowed to take authority until the police say they're a patient that's wrong because the police has no medical training so that needs to be changed immediately protester charges need to be dropped obviously because this is ridiculous this man is a victim you need to investigate um you know these sympathizers you know are we training white supremacy terrorism and policing which is a resounding yes if you look at patterns and these types of people um we need to take out white supremacy terrorism from policing because it doesn't make any sense another suggestion would be to follow up with a person who calls [Music] when this 911 if you just go right to the person who's fearing for whatever reason and they're going to that person's house you automatically relieve them of being attacked because there's cop car in their driveway and then you can find out what the hell their problem is and seeing that the person just has ear buds and might be dancing so we're not gonna actually walk up to someone who's not doing anything wrong case closed we need to continue all of us who have been on the phone and continue again my passion for this case grows every day with your lack of action uh and you're you know exercising over white terrorism the fourth and the fourteenth amendment violations that have happened in this case are the closers so fourth and fourteenth amendment violations here um it's about hypocrisy if y'all mentioning uh black history month and here we are talking i'm sitting on the phone for three plus hours now as well uh talking about this case seems like a hypocrisy for y'all to shout out here damn your people okay well just okay cool well why supremacy is terrorism never forget that and if you don't do anything next is awana elena elena thank you um i had a whole whole field written out i wanted to be super intentional with my time today and now i'm just fired up i'm outraged and disgusted and exhausted and the fact that y'all are a lot of you on on this council are truly acting like this is a joke it's really a disgrace um to the state of colorado to humanity to be frank um and yeah in terms of you all shouting out black history month um casually as you you know talk about other like meaningless things that are going on in city government and the fact that you shout out black history month no one cares until you actually take action on the things that your constituents are have been screaming about for the last 18 months it's i i truly don't have words you really couldn't prioritize this a lot elijah mclean's murder over anything else you had going on today after this report was put together um you know there's 60 people on this on this meeting took time out of their day to talk to you about this horrendous murder of this innocent young man and like no response it's just i i i'm not a loss for words and you know there's no gray area here this is white supremacy this is uh and you all you all have elijah's blood on your hands you truly do so i i yield my time all right thank you our next speaker is heather go ahead you have three minutes hi um so partially people have already been going over this so many times clearly you guys don't care about elijah so i just wanted to point out that this wasn't just one rotten apple which is some craze that you guys blue lives matter love to pull it was three cops three cops and two paramedics that murdered this man if you don't do something now this is guaranteed to happen again you need to defund this garbage police department and reinvest in the city fire those horrible monsters the three officers and the paramedics and prosecute them you have to realize how bad things are when someone from arkansas calls to tell you that you have messed up i yield the rest of my time thank you next is emily go ahead you have three minutes hello busy yes it is go ahead hey so i'm calling from virginia beach virginia i've been on the phone for almost three hours now it's getting near midnight actually past midnight but i just wanted to say i'll heal my time at some point because i know there are people in the actual city who have a good reason to be afraid walking the streets with these still on the job that you need to fire them all all three cops that were there and the paramedics then you need to make some changes in your police department because white supremacy has is obviously at the core of all this i'm honestly in a loss for words i second everything that everyone has said so far i'm exhausted um justin's fertilizing mclean and if possible i'll just give the rest of my time in a moment of silence to him because he did not deserve what your piece of police department and emergency people said to him sorry so he's not being moralism thank you caitlyn is next go ahead you have three minutes i have to say i'm a bit confused to hear the adverse reactions of the council members in response to this report not because it wasn't horrific it was but it almost sounded like you were all surprised at the report's finding have you not previously read the transcript watched the body cam footage i have and the people have i would like to note that we aren't asking for this to be handled and addressed swiftly that ship has failed he was murdered in 2019. what has been done since then besides this elaborate cover-up it has been obvious to the people that the actions leading to this murder were unlawful inhumane and sheer brutal torture now an independent investigator has reached similar conclusions is that enough for you now the constitutional requirements were not met to result in a terry stop or frisk let alone the brutal excessive force of administ and the administering of ketamine with no meaningful observations or diagnostic examination the constitutional requirements certainly weren't met to murder either it was stated that your system in your city has serious and significant accountability weaknesses address that now with action i'm honestly sick of hearing their names the people have clearly stated who to fire fire them and nothing less in addition you all need to advocate for these criminal charges for them in rosenblatt anything less is disgusting i'm done our next speaker is teresa go ahead hi i just you know after listening to all this and you guys just sitting here not showing any sympathy i just really question where your souls are at and on top of that i questioned how you were raised and how your mothers are because the carelessness blows my mind completely and the fact that all of us are taking time out of our day to you know shed even more light and attention on what we all know needs to be done is mind-blowing again it's just completely mind-blowing and i'm just disgusted in a lot of human beings i don't even know how you people can live with yourselves and sleep at night and i'm not going to ramble on just again i truly believe that you're all soulless you're extremely soulless individuals that's all i have to say yourselves all right next is samantha you have three minutes go ahead um hi so i just want to say so i want to reiterate everything that everyone has said on these calls has been tremendous thank you to all of the people who are coming up and supporting elijah mclean and literally it is so late we've been on the phone for hours so thank you to the people who are standing up and using our voices because clearly our money is not good enough our money that pays your bills is not good enough to have you listen to us and act on our behalf because that is literally your job so my question is who is pulling your strength because it really seems like none of you have any power it's really alarming to me there are a few of you who are brave enough to be on camera and are showing up and showing your faces and trying your best to do something but it's like performative powerlessness and it's like this never-ending system of passing it off of oh somebody else will do this somebody else will fix this oh i can't do this by myself this is literally your job that we elected you to do so i i just don't understand who is the invisible hand who is really and truly the boss because i mean it might be you mayor i'm not quite sure it seems like you're the one who's you know silencing the rest of the council when they're trying to speak up when they're asked to because i feel like a few of the a few of you did want to talk earlier but you couldn't because the mayor said we're not doing comment so i'm just confused who is the actual authority in in this government really and truly who has the power to bring murderers to justice is it nobody is white supremacy the actual authority at play here because that is disgusting i'm so i'm a millennial i was raised on the illusion the police are here to help us and to protect us it has been earth shattering to realize the terror that the police have inflicted on the black and brown communities i am disgusted at the ways in which people are terrorized by the color of their skin i am ashamed to be a white person in this country that makes being black or brown you can make a death sentence thank you next is nicole you have three minutes go ahead uh yeah can you hear me you sure can this new investigative report is not news to us it is information that confirms what we already knew within our bones within our experiences and within the long history of police brutality in this country and from even just the most basic understanding of what happened to elijah mcclain the new investigation states that the major crimes unit stretched the record to exonerate officers rather than present a neutral version of the facts with such a damning new report confirming sweeping corruption officers woodyard and rodima should be fired and the investigation should be reopened paramedic cooper and lieutenant kaczynick should be fired the detectives who carried out the corrupt major crimes unit investigation should be fired change the systems in place the new report states elijah mclean was stopped without any reasonable cause he was stopped for being a black man police acted on the fear that is a result of the weaponization of black skin and it led to the use of force within 10 seconds with no probable cause he was placed in two dangerous carotid holes while he pleaded for his life elijah mcclain's humanity was not considered and his subsequent murder is the result of a hateful corrupt and racist system elijah mcclain vomited apologized and cried in pain he was met with pain-inducing tactics and a callous disregard for his life that led to his murder ignoring the pain caused to your constituents in this meeting by turning off your cameras and actively doing other things shows more of that callous disregard you lied about a person being cut off for comment in the name of censorship the call was not dropped you cut the call because someone was angry and swearing it has been 18 months and you are censoring anger this process has been painstakingly long and extremely painful and our eyes are on you as you continue to do nothing you are complicit i'm asking you to consider elijah's humanity we need more than your sympathy we need more than conversation we need action we need you to not waste your time on pedantic issues and trying to silence a public fighting for our humanity with the current corrupt structures in place you're protecting the hateful criminalization brutalization and murder of black bodies justice for elijah mcclain i'm done next is audrey you have three minutes go ahead go ahead okay now i accidentally put the phone off uh speaker sorry about that um okay so you know after listening to the call and kind of watching the news report that just came on tv not but 10 minutes ago it's hard for me not to get emotional you know um i you know it's you know i want to say that i can't believe that we're having this conversation we're even having this talk um but i'm not surprised because of you know what's gone in you know gone on in you know our society today and has for hundreds of years and you know i feel like you all know what you need to do um i um [Music] i'm just in awe that again this is even a conversation um he was murdered point blank period and to watch the news tonight and hear that the review board didn't even properly ask questions to the officers correctly absolutely a sham investigation and we all know deep down and you guys know it too that they're helping hide your employees wrongdoing we know what it is don't think we don't see it we see it um it gets to the point where they're even just how they they're just working on you know quote-unquote firing them that first week of that incident we all should have been charged with murder because i'm gonna tell you all of you who aren't listening on the board right now first i'm disrespectful um thank you to those who are listening and who are you know helping us fight as well i appreciate you we appreciate you um i'm just again you all know what you need to do um we're going to keep fighting we're not going to stop and i think that's that's all i'm going to see thank you our last speaker is stephanie stephanie go ahead you have three minutes hello um can you hear me we sure can awesome um i just wanted to say that for me personally um elijah mclean's death has really trampled on my sense of justice and i'm here to add my voice to the chorus of voices who are demanding justice for him i want to join the public outcry for the immediate termination and prosecution of the officers and fire rescue paramedics responsible for elijah's murder as we all know they are nathan woodyard randy redeemer jeremy cooper peter trichnick and jason rosenblatt i also want to bring attention to peaceful activists who've been arrested and have had false criminal charges go against them i think that those charges should be dropped i think that's fairly obvious i also want to note that the former officers who are jason rosenblatt uh erica marrero kyle dietrich who have been fired should remain fired for their unprofessional callous and rosenblatt's case literally murderous actions i want to echo all of the sentiments that everyone before me had mentioned and done in so opinion um very eloquently considering the circumstances thank you all for being a part of this movement that is all thank you are there any further speakers i think i think the speakers for waiting and and for their comments uh and thank the members for participating uh in this tonight and i'll announce tomorrow uh when we'll have an additional meeting with the panelists meeting adjourned thank you [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you