An earlier trial against two officers in the 2019 case resulted in a split verdict.
A demonstrator carries an image of Elijah McClain during a rally and march in Aurora, Colo., on June 27, 2020. | David Zalubowski/APBRIGHTON, Colo. — A second Denver-area police officer was acquitted Monday in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, who was put in a neck hold and injected with ketamine after being stopped by police as he walked home from a convenience store.
McClain’s mother, Sheneen McClain, who was in the courtroom, wiped tears from her eyes after the verdict was read. Unlike the first two officers who were prosecuted, Woodyard took the stand during his trial. He testified that he put McClain in the neck hold because he feared for his life after he heard McClain say, “I intend to take my power back” and another officer say, “He just grabbed your gun, dude.”
The killings of McClain, Floyd and others triggered a wave of legislation that put limits on the use of neck holds in more than two dozen states. Colorado now tells paramedics not to give ketamine to people suspected of having a disputed condition known as excited delirium, which had been described in a since-withdrawn emergency physicians’ report as manifesting symptoms including increased strength. Critics have called it unscientific and rooted in racism.
Paramedics injected McClain with ketamine as Roedema and another officer who was not charged held him on the ground. He went into cardiac arrest en route to the hospital and died three days later. In both trials, the defense sought to pin the blame for McClain’s death on paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Lt. Peter Cichuniec. But while attorneys in the first trial suggested McClain bore some responsibility for his medical decline by struggling with police, Woodyard’s lawyers seemed more sympathetic to McClain.
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