Aurora Officer Fired Over Video Speaks: ‘I Told Her To Shut Up’

From CBS Denver:

By Brian Maass

September 30, 2020

AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – Levi Huffine, the Aurora police officer fired over a newly obtained video, showing a female prisoner handcuffed and hogtied in the back of his patrol car, testified Wednesday in an appeals hearing. He acknowledged there were some things he could have done better during the Aug. 27, 2019 arrest of Shantaeah Kelly.

“I could have absolutely,” said Huffine. He said when he first detained Kelly, 28, “I told her to shut up. I told her to be quiet. At that point my main concern was to get her in the back of my patrol car.”

Aurora’s police chief fired the veteran officer after seeing his body cam video which was released publicly for the first time this week.

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