From [HERE] Three Colorado police officers and two paramedics have been criminally charged in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died in 2019 after he was subdued and injected with a sedative, the state attorney general said on Wednesday.

A state grand jury handed up a 32-count indictment, Attorney General Phil Weiser said at a news conference. All five defendants are charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

McClain, 23, died at a hospital after a violent arrest on the evening of August 24, 2019. McClain was walking home after he had gone to a corner store to purchase tea. Although one of the officers acknowledged that McClain was not a suspect of criminal activity, the 140-pound man was unlawfully stopped in violation of his so-called constitutional rights. He was tackled and pinned to the ground by three white officers using a “carotid control hold” [sleeper hold] on him. After McClain was handcuffed, authorities injected him with ketamine. The drug is used for sedation purposes.

McClain suffered cardiac arrest during the ambulance ride to a nearby hospital. Elijah McClain was declared “brain dead” on Aug. 27 at a local hospital, where he was later taken off life support.

The Aurora officers involved are Randy Roedema, Jason Rosenblatt and Nathan Woodyard.

The encounter was captured on police body camera video which was released in November. In the video no weird mannerisms are on display. He looked like he was walking home with groceries.

McClain, who routinely wore masks when outside because he had anemia and became cold easily, according to family, refused to stop for officers when they first contacted him. However, the police apparently had no legal justification to stop him in the first place. “I have a right to go where I am going,” he said. Officers said McClain refused to stop and fought back when they tried to take him into custody. McClain said: “I am going home. … Leave me alone,” and “Let me go. No, let me go. I am an introvert. Please respect my boundaries that I am speaking.”

McClain begged, asking police to stop, informing officers he couldn’t breathe and vomiting multiple times. Officers responding to the scene then requested that a paramedic administer medication (a dose of ketamine) "due to the level of physical force applied while restraining the subject and his agitated mental state." According to Young’s report, officers said they took McClain to the ground when he tried to grab one of their holstered guns. Even though McCain was a 140-pound man, the three officers claimed that McClain was super strong and they assumed that he was on drugs or a stimulant.“Whatever he is on, he has crazy strength,” one officer said. The autopsy found only ketamine and marijuana in his system.

The family’s attorney, Mari Newman says about the body camera footage "He is laying on the ground vomiting, he is begging, he is saying, 'I can't breathe.' One of the officers says, 'Don't move again. If you move again, I'm calling in a dog to bite you,'" At one point, an officer spotted another officer’s body camera pointed at him: “Move your camera, dude,” the officer said.

The police officers charged are Nathan Woodyard and Randy Roedema, who are both still on the force, and Jason Rosenblatt, who was fired after he responded “Haha” to photos taken by uninvolved officers mocking the death of McClain.

The two paramedics under indictment are Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec, who also face assault charges for the drug injection.

In a statement on its Facebook page, the Aurora Police Association called the indictments a "hysterical overreaction" and noted that the initial investigation cleared the officers of wrongdoing.

"Sadly, Mr. McClain died due to a combination of exertion due to his decision to violently resist arrest and a pre-existing heart condition," the statement said. "There is no evidence that APD officers caused his death."

The city said the four defendants it still employed were suspended immediately and indefinitely without pay.

Initial internal investigations [all white] determined that the officers and paramedics had not violated policy. Adams County District Attorney Dave Young [racist suspect in photo] found no criminal actions by Aurora police during his investigation into the death of Elijah McClain. Dave Young, in a letter dated Friday to Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz, said: “From the officers’ perception, it went from an investigatory stop to a potential life-threatening incident, and it certainly raised the officers’ use of force. [MORE]

According to a letter released by the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office Friday evening. “Applying the facts of this incident, to the applicable Colorado law, the evidence does not support the filing of any state criminal charges against the involved officers for the unfortunate and tragic death of Mr. McClain.” [MORE]

Weiser took over the case after Governor Jared Polis appointed him as a special prosecutor last year, and in January announced that a state grand jury was convened to review the case.

An independent panel hired by Aurora's City Council found that police officers who stopped McClain had no apparent reason to suspect a crime was being committed and that a subsequent internal police investigation of the incident was flawed.

The family has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Aurora, the police department and paramedics.

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