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News: Aurora Shooting
AURORA, Colo. (77WABC) — A civil rights investigation by the state of Colorado’s attorney general — after the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain in 2019 — found a pattern of racially biased policing and use of excessive force within the Aurora Police Department.
The 118-page investigation report into Aurora police and fire departments found that they violated state and federal law through racially biased policing, use of excessive force, failing to record community interactions and unlawfully administering ketamine.
The investigation was announced in August 2020 after multiple police misconduct reports and the in-custody death of McClain. McClain was a black man who was walking home from a store while wearing a mask to cover his face from the cold.
The report also referenced an incident earlier this year when a Black woman and her four children were held at gunpoint after her car was mistaken for a stolen motorcycle due to having the same license plate number, even though the stolen vehicle was registered in a different state.
Earlier this month, three police officers and two paramedics were recently charged in McClain’s death. All five face one count of manslaughter and one count of negligent homicide.
