{"id":1525,"date":"2023-09-21T04:18:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T11:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2023-09-21T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T11:18:09","slug":"officer-trial-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=1525","title":{"rendered":"Officer Trial Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first trial of the police officers accused of killing 23-year-old Elijah McClain in 2019 began in Aurora Wednesday\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Elijah McClain Trial wrap\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:52)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-9219c188-442b-4efe-a75b-5ce4997241f4\" href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230921-Elijah-McClain-Trial-wrap.mp3\">230921-Elijah-McClain-Trial-wrap<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230921-Elijah-McClain-Trial-wrap.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-9219c188-442b-4efe-a75b-5ce4997241f4\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suspended officer Randy Rodema (roh-DEE-muh) and fired officer Jason Rosenblatt are both charged with reckless manslaughter and second-degree assault in the case.&nbsp; The prosecution squarely places blame on the responding officers for using excessive force on the 140-pound young man who\u2019d been doing nothing criminal while walking home from a convenience store\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">230921 Prosecutor- it only took minutes&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; :10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Q:\u2026his heart stopped\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1862b13b-0921-4aad-afea-31e132c90277\" href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230921-Prosecutor-it-only-took-minutes.mp3\">230921-Prosecutor-it-only-took-minutes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230921-Prosecutor-it-only-took-minutes.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-1862b13b-0921-4aad-afea-31e132c90277\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The defense wants a jury to believe those officers didn\u2019t do anything wrong, either\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">230921 Defense attorney- by the book&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; :07&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Q:\u2026to the policy\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-40d5d348-0bb5-4284-aeda-7bb462b6bd02\" href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230921-Defense-attorney-by-the-book.mp3\">230921-Defense-attorney-by-the-book<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/230921-Defense-attorney-by-the-book.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-40d5d348-0bb5-4284-aeda-7bb462b6bd02\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prosecution claims Rosenblatt and Rodema actually violated their department\u2019s policy, and further did so by ignoring Elijah\u2019s 7 claims that he couldn\u2019t breathe.&nbsp; The defense is claiming McClain reached for one of the officers\u2019 guns.&nbsp; This first trial\u2019s expected to go about 3 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first trial of the police officers accused of killing 23-year-old Elijah McClain in 2019 began in Aurora Wednesday\u2026 (Elijah McClain Trial wrap\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:52) Suspended officer Randy Rodema (roh-DEE-muh) and fired officer Jason Rosenblatt are both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}