AURORA | As the public awaits the body camera footage and investigation details of the officer-involved shooting of a Black man, there has been a public outcry from the community about how the police department handled the initial attempts at transparency.

“I think the community is more outraged, not because we have to undertake an investigation,” Councilmember Alison Coombs said during a City Council meeting Monday. “We do that every time this happens, because there are, unfortunately, way too many, but because there have been not one, but two press conferences in which details were revealed and a narrative was crafted” before an investigation was undertaken.

The traffic-stop-turned-car-crash and subsequent shooting of Rajon Belt-Stubblefield happened on Aug. 30 near East Sixth Avenue

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