AURORA, COLO. — 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. This photo released by the Aurora Police Department, in Colorado, shows Officers Erica Marrero, from left, Jaron…
As state and federal inquiries widen into the case of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who died last summer after Colorado police placed him in a chokehold, the decision by paramedics to inject him with a powerful sedative while he was handcuffed has raised questions about its use during police calls and whether such…
Attorney general ordered to investigate death of 23-year-old Black man put in a neck hold in Aurora Hundreds of protestors turn out at city hall to call attention to the death of Black people, including Elijah McClain, at the hands of police in Aurora, Colorado. Photograph: Philip B Poston/AP Colorado’s governor has appointed a special…
The governor of Colorado has appointed the state's attorney general as a special prosecutor to investigate the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old unarmed Black man who died after an officer used a chokehold on him and medical responders injected him with the sedative ketamine in August 2019. Thursday's announcement comes amid growing pressure on…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…