A jury in Colorado on Thursday found police officer Randy Roedema guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who died after being roughly restrained and injected with the sedative ketamine.
Aurora officers Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt were tried in the first of three trials in the death of McClain. In all, three police officers and two paramedics have been charged in McClain's death.
Defense attorneys argued during the trial that it was the ketamine that killed McClain, and that paramedics were solely responsible. A bystander had called 911 to report that McClain was acting suspiciously as he walked home from a convenience store on Aug. 24, 2019, in the Denver suburb of Aurora. McClain, dressed in a winter coat and face mask on a warm night, was listening to music using ear buds and dancing slightly as he walked, security videos showed.
The officers put McClain in a "carotid" choke hold at least twice and held him down for 15 minutes until the arrival of medics.
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