FILE – Colorado state Rep. Leslie Herod, D-Denver, left, consoles Sheneen McClain during a rally and march over the death of McClain’s 23-year-old son Elijah, Saturday, June 27, 2020, outside the police department in Aurora, Colo. Elijah McClain died in late August 2019 after he was stopped while walking to his apartment by three Aurora Police Department officers. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLast year, the city of Aurora agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by McClain\u2019s parents. The lawsuit alleged the force officers used against McClain and his struggle to survive it dramatically increased the amount of lactic acid in his system, leading to his death, possibly along with the large dose of ketamine he was given.<\/p>\n
The outside investigation commissioned by the city faulted the police probe into McClain\u2019s arrest for not pressing for answers about how officers treated him. It found there was no evidence justifying officers\u2019 decision to stop McClain, who had been reported as suspicious because he was wearing a ski mask as he walked down the street waving his hands. He was not accused of breaking any law.<\/p>\n
Police reform activist Candice Bailey had mixed emotions about seeing the amended autopsy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do believe that it does get us a step closer to anything that is a semblance of justice,\u201d said Bailey, an activist in the city of Aurora who has led demonstrations over the death of McClain.<\/p>\n
But Bailey added that she is \u201cextremely saddened that there is still a controversy around whether or not the EMTs and officers should be held responsible for what they did, and as to whether or not this was actually murder.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DENVER (AP) \u2014 A Black man died after a police encounter in a Denver suburb in 2019 because he was injected with a powerful sedative after being forcibly restrained, according to an amended autopsy report publicly released Friday. Despite the finding, the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist, was still listed as undetermined, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AP22259748993445-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6489,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions\/6489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachbytes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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