Photo: Elijah |By Jessica Washington, Yahoo | It’s been nearly four years since the death of Elijah McClain rocked the national consciousness. And yet, we’re still no closer to sentences being levied against the officers charged with killing him.
On Thursday, a Colorado judge ordered a delay in the criminal trial of two police officers who were indicted on manslaughter and criminally negligent reckless homicide charges in McClain’s case after their stop turned fatal. They were indicted alongside paramedics and another officer who are set to be tried in August and September, respectively.
For those who don’t remember, in 2019, police stopped the 23-year-old Black man as he was walking down the street in a suburb outside of Denver. McClain, a massage therapist, and self-taught musician who liked to play the violin to soothe stray cats, was completely unarmed when police arrived. Someone had called 911, alerting police of a “sketchy” man in the area, which was apparently all of the pre-text officers needed to try to detain him.
Despite the fact that McClain hadn’t committed a crime, police proceeded to tackle him and try to cuff him. They then placed him into a chokehold, cutting off blood flow to his brain. When paramedics arrived, they injected McClain with Ketamine, an incredibly powerful sedative known to increase your heart rate and blood pressure. McClain’s heart stopped on the way to the hospital, and he was pronounced dead several days later.
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Photo: Elijah memorial
A makeshift memorial stands at a site across the street from where Elijah McClain was stopped by Aurora, Colo., Police Department officers while walking home.
Continuing: The Sad Story of Elijah McClain Who Was Fatally Injected with Ketamine
