Colorado Police Officer Accused of Excessive Force in Altercation
An encounter between a police officer and a citizen in Colorado allegedly became violent as now the arresting officer is being accused of using excessive force in the altercation.
The incident took place in Aurora, Colorado, where a police officer allegedly hit a suspect with his gun and told the man, If you move, I will shoot you. Bodycam footage has also shown the arresting officer choking the man.
The officer, John Haubert, has since been arrested, as well as another officer who is female on the grounds that she did not stop the altercation between the two.
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is burning.
That’s how Rockford poet and activist Christopher D. Sims’ poem “Minneapolis is Burning” begins. He said he wrote the piece after inhaling the fumes brought on by George Floyd’s death.
“I could feel the groundswell,” he recalled. “I could feel it, I could see it. So, I wanted to capture all of that.”
Sims was active in many of the Rockford protests that happened over the summer. He said he knows people in Minneapolis and St. Paul and he wanted to capture their story.
Although places in the city were indeed burning, Sims had another reason for using that description in his writing.