Elijah McClain video: What to know about Elijah McClain’s death and the cases against police and paramedics
A jury on Monday acquitted a Denver-area police officer of manslaughter, following trial testimony that he put Elijah McClain in a neck hold before the Black man was injected with the powerful sedative ketamine by paramedics and died.
It was the second of three trials against first responders indicted by state prosecutors in the 23-year-old massage therapist’s death in August 2021.
The local district attorney initially declined to bring charges but the case was revived after the 2020 murder of George Floyd spurred social justice protests nationwide.
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