DENVER (Reuters) – Colorado’s attorney general on Friday convened a grand jury probe into the death of Elijah McClain, a young unarmed black man placed in a chokehold and injected with the powerful sedative ketamine while under arrest.
McClain, 23, was walking on a street alone in the Denver suburb of Aurora in August 2019 when he was stopped by three police officers based on a report that he was “being suspicious,” triggering the fatal encounter.
(Reporting by Keith Coffman in Denver; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
