Cherokee County Commissioners met in special session Monday, June 10, approving use of grant funds for the county attorney’s office, line item transfers within budgets and assistance to Rocky Springs
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser convened grand jury investigation into August 2019 death of Elijah McClain
McClain, unarmed 23-year-old black man, was walking home when he was stopped by police responding to reports of a suspicious person
Officers placed McClain in a carotid neck hold after he refused to stop and fought back
Paramedics who arrived injected McClain with powerful sedative ketamine, and he died a few days later after being declared brain dead
McClain s autopsy was inconclusive and officers involved in arrest were neither charged not fired from the force