The national outcry over George Floyd's killing leads to a fresh look at the 23-year-old black man who died last year in police custody after being stopped on his way home from a convenience store
Colorado’s governor appointed a special prosecutor Thursday to reinvestigate an August 2019 case in which a 23-year-old black man named Elijah McClain died in police custody after being stopped on his way home from a convenience store.
Gov. Jared Polis’s decision is the latest repercussion of protests against police brutality that have rippled across the nation in the wake of the killing of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police. A petition to conduct a new investigation into the McClain case and remove the...
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