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Since his death, the carotid hold has been banned. However, the autopsy report by the Adams County coroner and consequent police investigation said that the cause of death was “undetermined”. 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. One of three officers was fired for his reaction to a text message about the case. The other two are still with Aurora police.
How was the death investigation flawed?
The report by a panel of medical and legal experts appointed by the City Council has pointed out the series of mistakes made by the Aurora police and the paramedics. The independent report detailed the flaws in the original investigation. According to it, the police had no justification to stop or use force to detain McClain. They also said the responding paramedics sedated him with ketamine "without conducting anything more than a brief visual observation".
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2020 has been a lesson in the profound power of the people in struggle.
In August 2019, when the Aurora Police Department in Colorado killed Elijah McClain, they truly thought they could get away with it with no consequences. Aurora District Attorney Dave Young summarily declined to file any charges against the killer cops. APD didn’t even take them off the job. The city aided in blocking the McClain family from receiving any remittances. All of this despite the torture and killing of Elijah McClain at the hands of their own officers that was captured on camera.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation was part of a small core that fought with the McClain family for justice from day one, and this laid the groundwork for the movement that took shape this summer. But the reality is that without a mass movement, APD would have gotten away with it. Now, APD has had to learn that they don’t get to kill members of our community without consequence.
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