The 23-year-old Black man was stopped as he was walking home from a store, placed in a neck hold and injected with ketamine
police officer and acquitted another for the 2019 homicide of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old whose death at the hands of law enforcement while on a walk home sparked international outrage and years of protests.
Convictions of officers are rare in the US, and the verdicts come after McClain’s family and racial justice advocates have been fighting for four years for the officers to be held accountable and for systematic reforms to prevent future killings. The three tackled him to the ground and Roedema then claimed McClain had reached for Rosenblatt’s gun, but the officer later said he did not feel any contact with his weapon. The officers placed McClain in a neck hold and put their body weight on him as the young man repeatedly apologized and also said “I can’t breathe” at least
A makeshift memorial at a site across the street from where Elijah McClain was stopped by police officers while walking home in Aurora, Colorado.the cause of death as “undetermined”, partially blaming McClain’s “physical exertion” and “agitated behavior and enhanced strength”. The local prosecutor declined to file charges in November 2019.
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