Colorado police officers and paramedics plead not guilty in Elijah McClain death case

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Two years earlier, Elijah McClain died after being stopped while walking down the street in the Denver suburb of Aurora. However, the manner of McClain's death was still listed as undetermined, not a homicide. There had been renewed national interest in McClain's death as protesters rallied over the killing of George Floyd in 2020. Polis ordered the state investigation after a former district attorney said he could not file charges because an autopsy could not determine how McClain died. The amended autopsy report released in September said McClain died as the result of complications of ketamine administration after being forcibly restrained.
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