Colorado orders probe into police death of black man
Colorado's governor has ordered an investigation into the death of Elijah McClain, 23, last August, three days after he was put in a chokehold and injected with ketamine by police. – EPA pic, June 26, 2020.
COLORADO’S governor yesterday ordered a special investigation into the death of a young black man put in a police chokehold, as a celebrity-backed online petition calling for justice in the case passed three million signatures. The death in the western United States occurred months before the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May, but nationwide anger sparked by Floyd’s case has refocused attention on police brutality against minorities, especially black Americans.
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