Lawyers are set to make closing arguments Tuesday in the trial over two officers who were accused of killing Black man Elijah McClain in Aurora, Colorado.
Lawyers will deliver closing arguments Tuesday in the trial of the first two police officers to be prosecuted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who was put in a neck hold and pinned down by officers in a Denver suburb before paramedics injected him with a powerful sedative. McClain was stopped while walking home from a convenience store on a summer night, listening to music and wearing a mask that covered most of his face.
Defense attorneys did not call any witnesses, instead using questions for prosecution witnesses to make their case that the officers did not cause McClain’s death. Roedema and Rosenblatt are charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and second-degree assault — all felonies. An assault conviction carries the most serious penalty, up to 16 years in prison. Officer Nathan Woodyard — whose trial starts Friday— was the first to stop McClain.
The local district attorney did not pursue criminal charges in 2019, but the case was re-examined in 2020 after Gov. Jared Polis asked state Attorney General Philip Weiser to investigate amid protests over police brutality against Black people following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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