Elijah McClain’s family and Aurora, Colorado, agree to record $15M settlement over deadly police confrontation.
Officials in Aurora, Colorado, have agreed to pay $15 million to Elijah McClain’s family to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit over his 2019 death, which followed a violent confrontation with police, attorneys representing his family said Friday.is the largest police settlement in the city’s history, likely the largest in Colorado history, and among the largest ever in the United States."No amount of money will ever bring Elijah back to his mother. Ms.
According to KUSA, once McClain drops defendants from the suit the city will make its payment to the court’s registry. The registry will then hold the funds until allocation is determined. “In a span of eighteen minutes, Defendants subjected Elijah to a procession of needless and brutal force techniques and unnecessary, recklessly administered medication, the combined effects of which he could not survive,” the suit said.McClain’s death garnered national interest in light of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, as millions of Americans protested police brutality and systemic racism.
“Based on the record available to the panel, we were not able to identify sufficient evidence that Mr. McClain was armed and dangerous in order to justify a pat-down search,” the report said. “The panel also notes that one officer’s explanation that that Aurora officers are trained to ‘take action before it escalates’ does not meet the constitutional requirement of reasonable suspicion to conduct .
“In addition, EMS administered a ketamine dosage based on a grossly inaccurate and inflated estimate of Mr. McClain’s size," the report said."Higher doses can carry a higher risk of sedation complications, for which this team was clearly not prepared.”
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