Grand jury indicts police officers and paramedics in 2019 death of Elijah McClain

A Colorado grand jury has indicted five police officers and paramedics involved in the August 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was stopped by police while walking home from a store, put in a carotid hold and then injected with ketamine, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced Wednesday.

The two current officers also face assault charges and crimes of violence charges related to the assault. Two paramedics each face various assault charges including the use of a deadly weapon -- ketamine -- and face crimes of violence related to the assault charges, Weiser said. The grand jury returned its results of the investigation on Thursday, the eve of the second anniversary of McClain's death.

But the case gained renewed attention last June after the police killings of George Floyd and Breanna Taylor and mass Black Lives Matter protests. Spurred by those protests, Gov. Jared Polis announced a reexamination of the case last year, and Weiser opened a grand jury investigation into the casein January.

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