Aurora Police Department via AP.
Aurora, Colo., police officer John Haubert was arrested after he allegedly beat a man with his pistol, choked him and threatened to kill him while attempting an arrest.AURORA, Colorado — A Colorado police officer has been arrested on felony charges after a video showed him using his pistol to beat a man he was attempting to arrest, choking him and threatening to kill him, and a second officer was also arrested after authorities say she failed to stop her colleague as required by a new police accountability law.Body camera footage was shown Tuesday at a news conference of the Friday incident that happened in the Denver suburb of Aurora, whose police department has been plagued by numerous police misconduct cases in recent years including the 2018 death of Elijah McClain.The man repeatedly says "You're killing me, bro," as Aurora police Officer John Haubert holds him down and strikes him, the video shows.A new Colorado police accountability law requires law enforcement to intervene when they witness abuses of force.
A still image taken from an officer's body camera footage and included in the affidavit allegedly shows Haubert choking the man.Wilson said she moved quickly to put the officers on leave and release the body camera footage to shed light on an incident she said is "anomaly" in a department trying to do better"This is not the Aurora police department," Wilson said
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