Elijah McClain's family on new indictments: "We can hold them accountable"
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Three Aurora, Colorado police officers and two paramedics were indicted Wednesday on manslaughter and other charges in the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain. The indictment comes two years after McClain was put into a chokehold and injected with a powerful sedative.
Last year, nationwide protests against racial injustice and police brutality brought increased attention to McClain's death. "CBS This Morning" national correspondent Jericka Duncan spoke with McClain's parents, who never imagined losing their son at the hands of police and paramedics.Two climbers were waiting to be rescued near the peak of Denali, a colossal mountain that towers over miles of vast tundra in southern Alaska, officials said Wednesday. Originally part of a three-person team that became stranded near the top of the mountain, the climbers put out a distress call more than 30 hours earlier suggesting they were hypothermic and unable to descend on their own, according to the National Park Service.
There's no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished .07 seconds behind a Russian opponent who, everyone later learned, was doping. What the American 400-meter hurdles champion will finally receive is a great day under the Eiffel Tower where she'll be presented with the gold medal she was denied 12 years ago at the London Olympics.