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Colorado reexamines Elijah McClain's death in police custody

by Associated Press
| June 25, 2020 5:27 PM

DENVER (AP) — The Colorado governor on Thursday ordered prosecutors to reopen the investigation into the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man put into a chokehold by police who stopped him on the street in suburban Denver last year because he was “being suspicious.”

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