Internal video recordings obtained by Scripps News reveal how officers described the altercation leading up to Elijah McClain's 2019 death.
The criminal trial for two of three police officers charged in the death of Elijah McClain begins this week, more than four years after McClain died in Aurora, Colorado.
This led the city to agree to multiple reforms as part of a consent decree with the attorney general's office. Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt both pleaded not guilty to criminally negligent homicide, manslaughter and second-degree assault charges in connection with McClain's death. McClain, who was not committing any crime, was wearing a black face mask as he walked home from a local convenience store.
"I could feel his arms tensing up," he told homicide detectives during an interrogation hours after the encounter."I was trying to pull them away from his body. I was like, 'Hey dude, you know, what's going on?' And we're trying to kind of like talk to him, kind of like de-escalate him. I try to talk to people, you know?" he said.
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