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.
Three officers responding to a call of a suspicious person wearing a mask stopped Elijah McClain as he walked home from a store. His family said he wore a mask as a result of a blood condition that often made him feel cold.
McClain told officers he was an introvert and to"please respect the boundaries that I am speaking," according to audio from police body camera recordings. Officers grabbed him after questioning, and a chokehold was applied. One of the officers said he believed McClain had reached for a holstered service weapon during a physical struggle.
During the confrontation, McClain told police,"I can't breathe, please," which was captured on police video. After he was handcuffed, arriving paramedics injected him with ketamine, a hallucinogenic anesthetic. Seven minutes later he went into cardiac arrest, according to"Aurora Fire appears to have accepted the officers' impression that Mr. McClain had excited delirium without corroborating that impression through meaningful observations or diagnostic examination of Mr. McClain," a
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