The Colorado police accountability law made it unlawful for police officers or other employees of government agencies to deprive people of their constitutional rights and gave the attorney general the power to enforce it. “The report confirms what many Aurora residents already know: Aurora’s police department has a longstanding culture of violence and bias,” said Sheneen McClain’s attorney, Qusair Mohamedbhai. My son’s death was preventable and it’s really sad that it took all this to get justice done and make sure it won’t happen to someone else.” “Front and center: Elijah would still be here if the system was operating like it should. “It’s just terrible that it takes my son’s death for Aurora police to change what they’ve been doing for a long time in this community,” she said. Sheneen McClain, the single mother who raised Elijah, said she participated in the state investigation, welcomed its findings and urged the police department to work with Weiser’s office. The decree would specify what the city and department must do to fulfill his investigation’s recommendations. Weiser said his office wants a state agreement with Aurora, called a consent decree, to be submitted to a court.
The state civil rights investigation, announced in August 2020, was the first of its kind under a sweeping police accountability law passed in Colorado the month before amid protests over the killings of McClain and George Floyd. He fell unconscious, was pronounced brain-dead at a hospital, and was taken off life support. Paramedics injected him with 500 milligrams of ketamine, an amount appropriate for someone 77lb (35 km) heavier than McClain’s 143-lb (64-km) frame, according to an indictment.
Officers put McClain in a chokehold and pinned him down. Police stopped McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist, as he walked home from a store on 24 August 2019, after a 911 caller reported a man wearing a ski mask and waving his hands who seemed “sketchy”.
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