Amended autopsy: Black man in US died due to sedative, restraint
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 24, 2022
Denver: A Black man died after a police encounter in a Denver suburb in 2019 because he was injected with a powerful sedative after being forcibly restrained, according to an amended autopsy report publicly released Friday.
Despite the finding, the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist, was still listed as undetermined, not a homicide, the report shows. McClain was put in a neck hold and injected with ketamine after being stopped by police in Aurora for ``being suspicious.'' He was unarmed.
The original autopsy report that was written soon after his . . .
