Elijah McClain parents sue Colorado police over son's death
The parents of Elijah McClain have filed a civil rights lawsuit against police and emergency medical personnel in Colorado following the death of the 23-year-old black man after he was placed in a chokehold and injected with 500 milligrams of ketamine.
Nearly a year following his killing, Sheneen McClain and Lawayne Mosley seek to "hold accountable the Aurora officials, police officers, and paramedics responsible for his murder, and to force the City of Aurora to change it longstanding pattern of brutal and racist policing," they said in a statement through an attorney on Tuesday.
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