Police are refusing to provide security for this city’s Pride. It might get canceled.

Durham Region Police celebrating Pride 2014
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The city of Aurora, Illinois has revoked the special events permit for a planned Pride parade days before it was scheduled to take place. According to Chicago’s ABC7, city officials claim the event’s organizers failed to secure enough law enforcement officers to work security for the parade.

“The Aurora Police Department has said it cannot supply enough sworn officers to provide Parade security, and has tasked us with finding officers from other jurisdictions to close the gap,” the organizers of Aurora Pride said in a statement posted on Wednesday.

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As of Monday, Aurora Pride was approximately 20 officers short of the required number to provide security for the event, according to a statement released Tuesday by the city’s police department.

APD officers aren’t required to work at private events like the Aurora Pride Parade and do so on a volunteer basis.

Last month, Aurora Pride organizers announced that while they…

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