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Elijah McClain indictment: Case against Aurora police officers and paramedics comes down to intent, experts say

“A fact any prosecutor will run into is a somewhat antiquated idea that all officers are acting in good faith,” said Birk Baumgartner, an Englewood civil rights attorney. “That’s always the difficulty. You have to get over that threshold to have an objective jury that can make a decision on the facts of the case, rather than the idea people have growing up that all police officers are being the good guys.”