DENVER (AP) — A police chief spent over four hours defending her officers tactics to leaders in a Denver suburb after police unleashed pepper spray and used batons on demonstrators during a vigil for Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after police put him in a chokehold last year. Aurora Interim Police Chief Vanessa Wilson said the officers were responding to a small group of agitators among the largely peaceful crowd Saturday. McClains name is among those used as a rallying cry during nationwide protests over racial injustice and police brutality. We were attacked with rocks, and we had []

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