Lawyers will make closing arguments in the trial of the first two officers to be prosecuted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. The closing arguments will happen Tuesday. McClain, a Black man, was stopped in a Denver suburb while walking home from a store wearing a face mask. A 911 caller reported him as suspicious. McClain was put in a neck hold and pinned down by police before being injected by paramedics with a powerful sedative. Witnesses testified that ketamine was what killed McClain. Pro
FILE - A makeshift memorial stands at a site across the street from where Elijah McClain was stopped by Aurora, Colo., Police Department officers before family members hold a news conference, July 3, 2020, in Aurora, Colo. Lawyers are to deliver closing arguments Tuesday, Oct.
Prosecution witnesses testified that the sedative ketamine killed McClain. But prosecutors also offered medical testimony that the restraint of McClain by Aurora officers Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt triggered a series of health problems that made it hard for McClain to breathe and more vulnerable to a fatal overdose.
Officer Nathan Woodyard — whose trial starts Friday— was the first to stop McClain. Within 10 seconds, Woodyard put his hands on McClain and turned him around. As McClain tried to escape his grip, Woodyard said, “Relax, or I’m going to have to change this situation.” This moment can be heard but not seen on body camera video. The extensive video of the moments leading to his deathTwo paramedics, Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec, were also charged in McClain’s death and are scheduled to go on trial in November.
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