AURORA | A jury will likely decide whether an Aurora police officer was responsible for the May 12 shooting death of an unarmed, barefoot Black man suffering some kind of mental crisis in a private airport parking lot.

Police Officer Brandon Mills fatally shot 32-year-old Rashaud Johnson in the Parking Spot in northeast Aurora after employees there said a man was behaving erratically, wandering around the complex with no shoes on.

“Yet another unarmed Black man has been condemned to death by the Aurora Police Department,” a statement from the Johnson family’s attorneys said. “Under the APD’s playbook, officers escalate encounters that a reasonable officer would resolve peacefully. APD officers bait Black citizens standing on the other side of the weapons into making one wrong move.”

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