Trial begins for 3rd officer charged in connection with Elijah McClain's death

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 12:45AMof 23-year-old Elijah McClain following an altercation with Aurora, Colorado, police began Tuesday.

Attorney Megan Magdalena Downing, who represents Woodyard, argued that the ketamine that was administered by the EMTs that night was responsible for McClain's death, according to Denver7.McClain was stopped by police on his way home from a convenience store in August 2019. A passerby called 911 to report McClain as acting "sketchy" with a ski mask on; however, the caller said there was no weapon and that no one was in danger at the time.

In police body camera footage, McClain can be heard telling police he was going home and that, "I have a right to go where I am going." "I'm so sorry. I have no gun, I don't do that stuff. I don't do fighting. Why are you taking me?" McClain can be heard saying in body camera footage. In the first trial in connection with McClain's death, officer Randy Roedema was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and assault in the third degree last week.

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