The trial has begun in the trial of two officers charged in the death of Elijah McClain, a Colorado Black man who was placed in a chokehold by police and injected with a sedative. NBC News’ Trymaine Lee reports on what the trial means to McClain’s family and the upcoming trial for the paramedics who administered the sedative.
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