{"id":26917,"date":"2024-01-06T00:49:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T05:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=26917"},"modified":"2024-01-06T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T05:49:07","slug":"elijah-mcclain-case-colorado-officer-jailed-over-23-year-olds-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/01\/06\/elijah-mcclain-case-colorado-officer-jailed-over-23-year-olds-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah McClain case: Colorado officer jailed over 23-year-old’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A white former police officer in Colorado has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for the 2019 killing of a black man.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Randy Roedema, 41, was found guilty in October for his role in the killing of Elijah McClain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McClain, 23, was not suspected of any crime when he was pinned down by police before a medic injected him with ketamine and he died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The judge said he was shocked by the “indifference” to McClain’s suffering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Another officer, Jason Rosenblatt, facing the same charges, was acquitted last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Both men were accused of using excessive force and ignoring the unarmed man’s repeated cries of “I can’t breathe”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McClain died in Aurora, near Denver, three days after he was put in a chokehold by police, injected with ketamine to sedate him and suffered cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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During sentencing in a Colorado court on Friday, judge Mark Werner said he was “shocked by what appeared to be, really, indifference to Elijah McClain’s suffering”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McClain was “handcuffed and really wasn’t much of a threat to anybody”, Werner said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Roedema told the judge he and his fellow officers had “responded in the way we were trained to do”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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McClain’s death received renewed scrutiny after George Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ahead of sentencing, Elijah’s mother, Sheneen McClain, said Roedema “will always be a bully with a badge”.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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