Paramedics 'did nothing' to help Elijah McClain and killed him with overdose, prosecutor says
A Colorado prosecutor said on Wednesday that two paramedics“did nothing” to help an ailing Elijah McClain as he lay on the ground and instead injected him with an overdose of a powerful sedative that killed the 23-year-old Black man, after he had been weakened by police neck holds when officers forcibly restrained him as he was walking home from a convenience store.
A defense attorney, however, sought to shift blame to the officers during opening statements in the final jury trial over McClain’s 2019 death in a Denver suburb.
The trial is expected to explore largely uncharted legal territory because it is rare for medical first responders to face criminal charges.
Initially, no one was charged because the coroner’s office could not determine exactly how McClain died. But social justice protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd drew renewed attention to McClain’s case, and a grand jury indicted the paramedics and three officers in 2021.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/29/elijah-mcclain-trial-death-paramedics
And one of those cops even got an insane an=mount of back pay! GRRRRRRRR.
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