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.
2nd police officer acquitted in death of Elijah McClain, who was put in a neck hold, given ketamine
https://apnews.com/article/elijah-mcclain-death-officers-trial-2dc1c1e2597eed1306581517d45c6630
20 Comments
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 2y
Literally putting ketamine in his system so they can use it as a ‘reason’ to beat and/or kill him. Cops out here lynching black men in modern daylight.
stella@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
I did some research, and apparently using ketamine as a sedative is standard practice among some paramedics. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33763938/
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
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.
stella@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
I think they had actual paramedics administer the ketamine. They are also being tried later.
foggy@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 2y
Actual last words:
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 2y
Jesus Christ.
Why did it take so long to find the killer's name?
Nathan Woodyard.
stella@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Is there a recording of this?
foggy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Yes.
https://youtu.be/q5NcyePEOJ8?si=vjNxkNYquGANrgLe
cuibono@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Poor boy didn't any of what happened to him. This is awful to read.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 2y
I can never understand, with all the people in this country that are totally without hope or happiness, have easy access to firearms, and a fixation on dramatic spectacles... combined with no shortage of justice-dodging pigs like this one... Hmm, forgot where I was going with that.
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
This is America.
Nomad@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 2y
Queue 300 meme
flyboy_146@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
*cue
(Please don’t hit me!)
Nomad@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 2y
Thanks, appreciate it. Non native speaker here ^^
flyboy_146@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Me too (😉) and I also appreciate the opportunity to learn to correct these little mistakes. I don’t know how long and in front of how many anglophones I’ve said “mooses” until someone finally pointed out that the plural of moose is moose! Lol 😂
MayvisDelacour@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Q
flyboy_146@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
I love Q!
stella@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 2y
The headline is a little misleading. It makes it look like officers were only acquitted, which isn't true.
3 officers were charged. 1 has already been "found guilty on charges of criminally negligent homicide and assault." The other 2 were acquitted.
The 2 paramedics involved in forcing Elijah to overdose on ketamine are awaiting trial. Not sure why we're trusting paramedics to give correct dosages of sedatives, but here we are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Elijah_McClain
Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
I hope that event lives in this fucker's nightmares until his very last moment on earth.
stella@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
It won't.
stella@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y