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		</div><p>Three officers have been fired over photos showing them re-enact a chokehold used on a 23-year-old black man who died after he was stopped by police on a street in Denver.</p>
<p>One of those sacked is Jason Rosenblatt, a white officer who helped stop Elijah McClain in August last year for wearing a ski mask and “being suspicious”.</p>
<p>Police put Mr McClain in a chokehold, paramedics injected him with a sedative and he suffered cardiac arrest before later being taken off life support.</p>
<p>Aurora interim police chief Vanessa Wilson told reporters that officers sent the photos to Rosenblatt and others two months after Mr McClain died to “cheer up a friend”, without explaining who that was.</p>
<p>Rosenblatt responded with a text saying, “Haha”.</p>
<p>Officer Nathan Woodyard, who put McClain in a chokehold, also got the photos but he was not disciplined because he did not respond.</p>
<p>“We are ashamed, we are sickened, and we are angry,” Ms Wilson said. The officers may not have committed a crime, but the photographs are “a crime against humanity and decency”, she added.</p>
<p>Mr McClain’s death has become a rallying cry amid a national reckoning over police brutality and racial injustice, with the state reopening the case for possible criminal charges and federal officials looking into a civil rights investigation.</p>
<p>In several places, the chokehold has been banned and other police reforms passed after nationwide protests.</p>
<p>Mr McClain’s family, friends and community activists noted during a rally that justice was swifter for the mocking photograph than the use of force that led to Mr McClain’s death.</p>
<p>The two other officers who stopped the young man are still on the force as authorities look again into possible criminal charges after clearing them last year.</p>
<p>“Rosenblatt got fired not for killing Elijah, not for murdering Elijah, but for making fun of Elijah,” said Terrence Roberts, a community organiser and family friend.</p>
<p>“That is the culture that we’re fighting, where a police officer can murder a black man, a black child, and keep his job and stay on the force so he can go make fun of this child.”</p>
<p>Officers Kyle Dittrich, Erica Marrero and Jaron Jones — none of whom confronted Mr McClain in August — smiled and mockingly placed each other in a chokehold in the photos taken in October near a memorial for Mr McClain.</p>
<p>For Mr McClain’s mother, Sheneen McClain, “it was just devastating to see that people were mocking the murder of her son”, family attorney Mari Newman said.</p>
<p>“The fact that three on-duty, in-uniform police officers thought that it was appropriate to reenact the murder, jokingly, shows that the department is rotten to the core,” she said.</p>
<p>Facing increasing pressure as celebrities and others on social media called for justice, Colorado Governor Jared Polis last week ordered the state attorney general to reopen Mr McClain’s case.</p>
<p>The officers stopped Mr McClain, a massage therapist, after a 911 call on August 24 reported him as suspicious because he was wearing a ski mask and flailing his arms. He begged them repeatedly to let go of him, according to body-camera video.</p>
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