In her own words: Elijah McClain's mother, Sheneen, says injustice persists

• Her memo comes just days after Aurora police officer Nathan Woodyard, who put McClain in a neckhold, returned to work with more than $200,000 in back pay in the wake of a jury acquitting him in early November.
• In an October joint trial, a jury acquitted a second officer charged in McClain's death, while finding a third officer guilty on lesser charges.

What she's saying: "Aurora, Colorado, does not want trust of the community," she wrote, adding that police "just want us all to bow down to their evil ways and insensitive behaviors."

• "When we pay taxes so that police officers have to include body cameras on their uniforms to record their interactions, but we refuse to hold that evidence as the truth, that is disgraceful," her letter reads.
• "The lack of accountability … is criminal," she added.

Sheneen also took issue with justice being left to juries.

• "Civilians should not be handed criminal cases that involve government, state or city official employees," she wrote. "Those cases should be judged by other professionals based on professional misconduct … Juror biases are indifferent to evil."

What we're watching: The last trial in her son's death is underway. Paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec, who injected him with a powerful sedative, have pleaded not guilty to charges of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and second-degree assault.

Of note: Only one of three juries have appeared to have a Black person on it, CPR reports.