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Elijah McClain's Family to Receive $15 Million in Settlement - The New York Times

Elijah McClain's Family to Receive $15 Million in Settlement - The New York Times

Elijah McClain's Family to Receive $15 Million in Settlement - The New York Times
Nov 21, 2021 1 min, 30 secs

McClain, a young Black man, died in 2019 after being restrained by the police in Aurora, Colo.

Officials in Aurora, Colo., finalized an agreement on Friday to pay $15 million to the family of Elijah McClain to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit over the police confrontation in 2019 that ended his life, according to city officials and the family’s lawyer.

McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, died after the police in that city restrained him with a chokehold maneuver that has since been banned.

The agreement, reached in principle in July, is the largest police settlement in the city’s history and among the biggest to result from similar cases in the United States, according to Qusair Mohamedbhai, the McClain family’s lawyer.

Sheneen McClain, Elijah McClain’s mother, said in an interview on Saturday that she considers the settlement an important step in seeking justice for her son’s death but said that, “There’s nothing that can return to me what I lost.” She also said that the agreement comes with its own pain.

McClain had told the officers he was simply walking home, according to an independent review.

McClain told the officers he couldn’t breathe, and he vomited, according to the review.

11, 2020, which named the city of Aurora, 12 police officers, two Fire Department paramedics and the department’s medical director as defendants.

“In a span of 18 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 lawsuit said.

Unrelated to the lawsuit, a Colorado grand jury indicted three police officers and two paramedics on charges including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

“This tragedy has greatly changed and shaped Aurora,” said Jim Twombly, the Aurora city manager, in a statement Friday.

Mohamedbhai said

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