Jurors in the first of three criminal trials stemming from the 2019 death of Elijah McClain following a violent arrest by Aurora police have reached a verdict.
Aurora police Officer Randy Roedema, center, heads back into the courtroom after a break in closing arguments at the Adams County Justice Center on October 10, 2023 in Brighton, Colorado. THORNTON — Jurors reached a verdict Thursday in the trial of two Aurora police officers charged in Elijah McClain’s death more than four years ago.
McClain was walking home on Aug. 24, 2019, when officers contacted him after a 911 caller had reported McClain as a suspicious person. The 23-year-old was wearing a runner’s mask that night, as he often did because he was frequently cold. Within seconds of reaching McClain, the officers threw him to the ground and
Prosecutors sought to prove during the jury trial that McClain would be alive but for the officers’ actions during the violent encounter. Defense attorneys for Rosenblatt and Roedema sought to shift blame elsewhere — to the paramedics for injecting ketamine, to McClain for allegedly resisting the officers, and to politics, claiming the prosecution itself was politically-motivated and flawed.
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