Facebook.com By Melissa Noel ·Updated October 13, 2023
A jury convicted a Denver-area police officer of homicide Thursday and acquitted another of all charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man placed in a neck hold, pinned to the ground, and injected with ketamine.
Aurora police officer Randy Roedema was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault by the 12-person jury. He faces