Consent Decrees Have No Effect on “Authority,” the Uncontrollable Power to Use Force Offensively on Citizens. So Aurora Cops Continue Murdering People like Kily Lewis (Shot Holding Phone w/Hands Up)

Kilyn Lewis was Holding a Phone w/Both Hands Up when an Aurora Race Soldier Murdered Him. Cops say 'Phones Look Like Guns' in Black Peoples Hands as Cop Murders of Blacks in White Liberal City Roll On

From [HERE] About 70 demonstrators rallied at the Aurora City Council meeting last week to protest the police shooting of another unarmed Black man, 37-year-old Kilyn Lewis— who police shot and killed last month in Aurora. Lewis’s death comes two years after Colorado Attorney Phil Weiser imposed a consent decree on the city of Aurora mandating the city fix “patterns of racially biased policing and excessive use of force in the Aurora Police Department.”

The Consent Decree came in the aftermath of the 2019 murder of Elijah McClain, and a report showing Black people were more than 250 percent more likely to be arrested in the city of Aurora than white people.

Despite the decree, in 2022, only about five months later, Aurora’s City Council fired Vanessa Wilson, the interim Chief of Police who had begun to reform the APD by creating DEI trainings and removing many of the so-called “bad apples” involved in Elijah McClain’s death. In Wilson’s place, the Council appointed a new interim chief who rehired the officers and ended many of Wilson’s programs for reform.

Meanwhile, police violence in Aurora has continued. So far this year, out of the 348 reported uses of force by Aurora PD, about 40 percent of those were against Black residents – that’s despite Black residents only making up about 16 percent of the population.

Lewis was the second unarmed Black man Aurora Police officers killed since June of last year. The incident happened at around midday, on a Tuesday in May. Footage shows Aurora PD confronting Lewis and Officer Michael Dieck shooting and killing Lewis within eight seconds of arrival.

Lewis, who had a 16-year-old son, can be heard shouting that he is unarmed. As he begins to fall to his knees with his hands in the air, Dieck fires. Dieck, who is on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation, reported that he thought the cellphone in Lewis’ right hand was a weapon. KGNU’s Alexis Kenyon reports. [MORE]

Nothing can ever change with regard to police brutality so long as police have the power to use force offensively on “citizens.” In fact, despite the falling violent crime rates since 1993, police killings have increased. According to Mapping Police Violence, “Police killed more people in 2023 than any year in more than a decade. Police have continued to kill at a similar rate in 2024.“ Police killed at least 1,247 people in 2023. Black people were 27% of those killed by police in 2023 despite being only 13% of the population. Thus far, there have been only 9 days in 2024 where police did not kill someone. Black people are most likely to be killed by police and are three times more likely than whites to be killed by police. 33% of Black people killed by police were running away, driving away or otherwise trying to flee. Regardless of race, there is no accountability: 98.1% of killings by police from 2013-2023 did not result with officers even being charged with a crime. [MORE]

Petitioning puppeticians for reforms, or begging them to enforce the status quo by punishing police for conduct that is already illegal or begging them to defund or lower police department budgets can have no effect on the extraordinary police power to use force offensively on citizens. Said non-reformable and uncontrollable power to initiate the use of unprovoked violence on people is called “authority.”

As you will see, if you indulge BW here, due to the fact that "authority" is immoral and unjust and there is no legitimate or rational way to account for belief in its existence, the legal system is entirely based on physical coercion or violence. In other words, we are not free.

Political “authority” can be summed up as the implied right to rule over people. It is the idea that some people have the moral right to forcibly control others, and that, consequently, those others have the moral and legal obligation to obey.’ [MORE] Authority is the basis and operating system for all governments throughout the world, regardless of type, function or characterization. As so-called representatives of authority, police officers (among other authorities) are empowered to use force offensively against citizens who are legally and morally obliged to obey authority. [MORE]