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“Excited delirium” was listed on the autopsy reports for Elijah McClain and Daniel Prude, both of whom died after being restrained by police officers. The defense for former officer Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd, also invoked the term in court arguments. But the authors of a new study say “excited delirium” is not a valid medical diagnosis, and therefore...

The announcement came two years after the fatal arrest of a Black man in suburban Denver who had been injected with the drug.

The Denver suburb of Aurora has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the parents of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after suburban Denver police stopped him on the street and put him in a neck hold two years ago

The mother of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died days after a violent confrontation with police in 2019, has settled her federal civil rights lawsuit against Aurora, Colorado, her lawyers said Monday. “A settlement in principle has been reached with the city of Aurora resolving all claims raised” in Sheneen McClain’s suit, her lawyers said in a statement. There...

Colorado’s attorney general says a civil rights investigation that began amid outrage over the death of Elijah McClain has found that a suburban Denver police department has a pattern of racially biased policing

Colorado’s attorney general said Wednesday that a grand jury returned a 32-count indictment against police officers and paramedics in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who was put in a chokehold and injected with a powerful sedative two years ago in suburban Denver

The results of an investigation into the fatal arrest of Elijah McClain in suburban Denver criticizes how police handled the entire incident.

A year after Elijah McClain was stopped by police in suburban Denver on his way home from the store, people are celebrating his life as well as calling for justice

The Colorado attorney general has announced a civil rights investigation into the suburban Denver police department whose officers used a chokehold on Elijah McClain before the 23-year-old Black man died last year

The interim chief of a suburban Denver police department has become the first woman to permanently lead the agency looking to regain public trust following a tumultuous year

A new song and video by Houston-based rapper Tobe Nwigwe called “I Need You To” uses a social-friendly format to call for the arrest of the police officers involved in the deaths of Breonna Taylor and Elijah McClain. NBC reporter Kalhan Rosenblatt joined LX News to discuss the innovative ways that shareable social media is used to bring attention to...

Three officers were fired Friday over photos showing police reenact a chokehold used on Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died last year after police stopped him on the street in a Denver suburb. One of those fired is Jason Rosenblatt, a white Aurora officer who helped stop McClain in August for wearing a ski mask and “being suspicious.”…

Police in Aurora, Colorado, say one of the police officers investigated over photographs connected with the death of Elijah McClain has resigned

Suburban Denver police say multiple officers are on paid leave during an investigation into photos that emerged of them near where Elijah McClain died last summer

Officers from the Aurora, Colorado, police department have been placed on paid leave after allegations that “multiple” police officers were depicted in photos near the site where Elijah McClain died, the interim police chief said Monday night.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside an Aurora, Colorado, municipal building Saturday demanding systemic change and justice in the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died last year after police applied a chokehold.

Three Colorado police officers involved in a deadly confrontation with a 23-year-old Black man last year were moved to “non-enforcement” duties as Elijah McClain’s arrest gains renewed scrutiny, officials said Friday.

Colorado’s governor ordered prosecutors to reopen the investigation into the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man put into a chokehold by suburban Denver police last year.

Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black massage therapist, died in August 2019 after police in Aurora, Colorado, stopped him on his way home from the store and put him in an illegal chokehold. LX News host Nik Z reviews the body cam footage of his encounter with the cops and Marc Sallinger, a reporter for KUSA in Denver, gives an update...