As outrage over police brutality erupted across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s death, a wave of fresh attention and scrutiny was applied to older cases in which people died after encounters with the police.
One such case was Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019 after the police in Aurora, Colo., restrained him with a chokehold that has since been banned. Two years after his death, a Colorado grand jury indicted three police officers and two paramedics on charges including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.
Mr. McClain was walking home from a convenience store on Aug. 24, 2019, when someone called 911, saying he “looked sketchy” and was wearing a ski mask and waving his arms.
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