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The bill would prevent paramedics from using ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, and similar drugs to 鈥渟ubdue, sedate, or chemically incapacitate鈥� people, including those simply deemed suspicious, like Elijah McClain was when police stopped him, as well as those suspected of crimes.

On Monday, the city of Aurora released the results of a months-long independent investigation into Elijah McClain鈥檚 death. The report鈥檚 findings validate what Elijah McClain's mother, Sheneen McClain, has been saying publicly and privately about his death for nearly a year and a half. Ms. McClain joined Colorado Edition to talk about her son, the independent investigation, healing and justice.

Rep. Leslie Herod鈥檚 bill is a response to the death of Elijah McClain and comes after KUNC revealed more than 900 ketamine sedations for excited or agitated people around the state in 2.5 years.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, a piece of art appeared dangling from a traffic light near the Colorado state Capitol. The wire sculpture was a tribute to Elijah McClain, who died several days after an incident with police and medics in Aurora last year.

"They sound like they want to give him ketamine to control his behavior as opposed to treat excited delirium syndrome," said one doctor who reviewed police video.

Paramedics unnecessarily sedated hundreds of people with ketamine during confrontations with police officers in Colorado, exposing them to potentially life-threatening complications associated with the drug. That鈥檚 according to an estimate from Dr. Mark DeBard, a professor emeritus of emergency medicine at Ohio State University and expert in cases of 鈥渆xcited delirium.鈥�

On Saturday, the state's top public health official announced a 鈥渢horough review鈥� of the system that allows medics to sedate people in confrontations with police. This week, an architect of Colorado鈥檚 sweeping law enforcement reform bill is hinting at further action, at the same time citizens are pushing the state to pause its ketamine waiver program.

Candice Bailey just wanted her community to breathe. The activist took a sip of water and looked out at more than 100 people who had gathered on the football field at the Montbello Recreation Center in Denver Sunday night. They came to dance, listen to music and mark one year since Elijah McClain鈥檚 fatal interaction with Aurora police.

In the year since Elijah McClain died after being stopped by police in Aurora on his way home from a store, the number of people calling for justice to be done in his case has grown to millions of people around the world.

A growing number of people want Colorado officials to pause or ban medics from using ketamine on people during escalated confrontations with police. The list includes two men who were given the powerful anesthetic when medics and police decided they showed signs of 鈥渆xcited delirium鈥� or extreme 鈥渁gitation.鈥�