A second Denver-area police officer has been acquitted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. The 23-year-old Black man was put in a neck hold and injected with ketamine after being stopped by police as he walked home from a convenience store.

  • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Law enforcement who plans to beat a man to death for driving while black aren’t paramedics and shouldn’t be trusted to administer medicine of any kind.

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      1 year ago

      I think they had actual paramedics administer the ketamine. They are also being tried later.