A suburban police agency near Denver is facing more scrutiny for its officers' treatment of Black people after a video emerged showing a woman begging to be lifted up after she fell to the floor in the back of a police cruiser with her hands and feet cuffed behind her.
In the police body camera video, she says she can’t breathe several times and calls the officer “master” as she pleads with him at one point.
Aurora police officer Levi Huffine was fired for his treatment of Shataeah Kelly, whom he arrested on Aug. 27, 2019, for allegedly refusing to stop fighting with another woman in a park. The video of her arrest and the approximately 20-minute drive to jail was shown Tuesday at the start of a hearing to determine if Huffine can keep his job.
Aurora police previously came under scrutiny following the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man confronted by police after someone reported him as suspicious.
Huffine’s body camera video shows the handcuffed Kelly moving around in the back of the police cruiser toward each door, apparently trying to escape, after removing her seat belt. Huffine tells her that he is going to hobble her — link together cuffs around her wrists and ankles — for trying to get out of the car.
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