Deon J. Hampton is a national reporter for NBC News.
A Colorado jury convicted Thursday one of two officers charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black pedestrian who was put in a chokehold and injected with a powerful sedative, and acquitted the other officer. The jury convicted Aurora Police Officer Randy Roedema of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault. Former Aurora officer Jason Rosenblatt was acquitted.
There's been no evidence showing McClain, who was not armed, attempted take one of the guns. Officer Nathan Woodyard, set to go on trial this week, then put McClain in a chokehold that forced him into unconsciousness, prosecutors have said. He was fired after the incident. A pair of responding paramedics, also set for trial later this year, injected McClain with ketamine to sedate him after police video showed him writhing on the ground saying, “I can’t breathe, please,” and throwing up.
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