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Amended autopsy: Black man died due to sedative, restraint

FILE - A small memorial stands next to the retaining wall for northbound lanes of Interstate 225, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, in Aurora, Colo., across the frontage road where Elijah McClain, a Black man who was put in a chokehold by police and injected with a powerful sedative, was stopped by officers of the Aurora, Colo., Police Department in August 2019. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) FILE - A makeshift memorial stands at a site across the street from where Elijah McClain was stopped by Aurora, Colo., Police Department officers while walking home, before family members hold a news conference, Friday, July 3, 2020, in Aurora, Colo. Three Aurora Police Department officers have left the force after photographs surfaced of them reenacting the chokehold used on McClain across the road from the memorial, which sits in the shadow of Interstate 225. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) FILE - Demonstrators move along Interstate 225 after stopping traffic during a rally and march over the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain, Saturday, June 27, 2020, in Aurora, Colo. McClain died in late August 2019 after he was stopped while walking to his apartment by three Aurora Police Department officers. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) FILE - Colorado state Rep. Leslie Herod, D-Denver, left, consoles Sheneen McClain during a rally and march over the death of McClain's 23-year-old son Elijah, Saturday, June 27, 2020, outside the police department in Aurora, Colo. Elijah McClain died in late August 2019 after he was stopped while walking to his apartment by three Aurora Police Department officers. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) FILE - A demonstrator carries an image of Elijah McClain during a rally and march in Aurora, Colo., June 27, 2020. A Colorado judge on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022 responded to a request by a coalition of news organizations to release an amended autopsy report for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after a 2019 encounter with police, by ruling the report be made public only after new information it contains is redacted. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)