Prosecutors on Thursday were preparing to show jurors enhanced video of body camera footage showing how police officers struggled with Elijah McClain in a confrontation in a Denver suburb that led to his 2019 death
raised up by protesters as a searing example of excessive force used against people of color.
Officers Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt are both charged with criminally negligent homicide, manslaughter and assault, all felonies. They have pleaded not guilty but have never spoken publicly about the allegations. A third officer and two paramedics charged in McClain’s death are scheduled for trial later this year.
McClain threw up repeatedly after the neck hold and was drowning in his own vomit, according to Bunge. “He is drifting further and further toward death. The sedative is the last thing he needs.” “Just because a tragedy occurred doesn’t mean criminality occurred,” Elkus said. McClain was stopped in a “high-crime area,” and officers repeatedly told him to halt before he complied, Elkus said.
After the sedative injection, McClain suffered cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital and was pronounced dead three days later.
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