Elijah McClain: Aurora, Colorado, to hire independent police monitor after investigation into death CNN 2/24/2021 © Courtesy McClain family attorney Mari Newman
Officials in Aurora, Colorado, said Tuesday that an independent monitor will be set up to scrutinize police discipline and transparency after an investigation triggered by the in-custody death of Elijah McClain found a failed system of accountability. I believe the investigative team has identified the issue that is at the root of the case: the failure of a system of accountability, City Manager Jim Twombly told reporters.
McClain died in August 2019, three days after he was stopped by Aurora police, put in a carotid hold and injected with ketamine. No charges were brought against the officers because District Attorney Dave Young wrote in a June 2020 letter that prosecutors lacked evidence to prove the officers caused McClain s death or that their force was unjustified.
Aurora, Colorado, to hire independent police monitor after investigation into Elijah McClain s death
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Elijah McClain s mother relieved he is no longer labeled a suspect after investigation into officers actions
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By BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News
(AURORA, Colo.) An independent review of the death of Elijah McClain, the 23-year-old Black man who died in Colorado after being placed in a carotid hold by police and injected with ketamine, was made public on Monday and alleges the officers had no reasonable suspicion to stop and frisk him in the first place.
The report, ordered in July by the Aurora City Council, also concluded that the investigation of McClain s death by the Aurora Police Department s major crimes unit was badly flawed and alleged the detectives stretched the record to exonerate the officers rather than present a neutral version of the facts.”