A police department in Colorado is investigating a few officers who have been allegedly photographed reenacting the chokehold maneuver cops utilized on Elijah McClain in the vicinity of a memorial for him, a report claimed Monday.

The officers allegedly took the photographs around in which McClain was stopped and detained by Aurora Law enforcement quickly right before his death in 2019, CBS Denver noted, citing resources familiar with the investigation.

The photographs of the cops allegedly unfold all over the Aurora Police Department just before the inside investigations section caught wind of them and started out a probe.

The interim law enforcement main of the office explained in a assertion late Monday night time that all the officers included were being suspended with shell out pending the investigation.

“Thursday afternoon, I was apprised of allegations documented to Inner Affairs by an Aurora Police Officer alleging multiple Aurora Police officers had been depicted in photographs in the vicinity of the website wherever Elijah McClain died,” Vanessa Wilson stated in the statement.

“I instantly purchased Interior Affairs to make this investigation their top rated priority. This accelerated investigation was concluded this night,” she additional.

McClain died immediately after police stopped him in the Colorado metropolis last August after anyone identified as 911 to report him searching suspicious.

Officers detained him making use of a chokehold and known as an ambulance, the New York Occasions described.

Medics who responded injected him with ketamine, and McClain went into cardiac arrest on the way to the clinic.

He died days later on of “undetermined” triggers.