Aurora Colorado

The Denver suburb of Aurora has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the parents of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after suburban Denver police stopped him on the street and put him in a neck hold two years ago

The mother of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died days after a violent confrontation with police in 2019, has settled her federal civil rights lawsuit against Aurora, Colorado, her lawyers said Monday. “A settlement in principle has been reached with the city of Aurora resolving all claims raised” in Sheneen McClain’s suit, her lawyers said in a statement. There...

Colorado’s attorney general says a civil rights investigation that began amid outrage over the death of Elijah McClain has found that a suburban Denver police department has a pattern of racially biased policing