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Watch on - 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.
Prosecutors argued throughout the trial that the officers unnecessarily brutalized McClain whey they stopped him and that they gave false information to paramedics which contributed to the medical workers administering a large dose of ketamine. A revised autopsy report in September 2022 concluded McClain died from"complications of ketamine administration following forcible restraint."
Three Aurora police officers arrived and grabbed McClain nine seconds after confronting him, according to body camera footage showed by prosecutors. A struggle ensued. The footage does not show McClain grabbing for a gun, but an officer can be heard yelling that McClain tried to get another officer's weapon. Prosecutors say McClain did not grab for a gun.
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