Barcelona controversy

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, Colorado.

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”.

Police put McClain in a chokehold, paramedics injected him with a sedative and he suffered cardiac arrest before later being taken off life support.

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.

Rosenblatt responded with a text saying “Haha”.