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Colorado city bans ketamine use amid Elijah McClain probe

by Associated Press/Report for America
| September 15, 2020 11:03 AM

DENVER (AP) — City council members in a Denver suburb have voted to ban the use of a powerful sedative by first responders until officials finish a review of its use in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man put in a stranglehold by officers and injected with the drug, ketamine.

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