The family of the late Elijah McClain has waited 4 years to see whether the paramedics and police officers involved in his death will face any penalties for it. They\u2019re expected to get those answers, starting this week\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Today, a jury is due to begin deliberating the fate of 2 police officers, Randy Rodema (roh-DEE-muh) and Jason Rosenblatt. Each could face up to 16 years in prison if they\u2019re convicted of reckless manslaughter and second-degree assault. They\u2019re 2 of the officers who stopped Elijah as he was walking home from a convenience store back in 2019, committing no crime. The officers threw him to the ground and put him in a neck hold, before paramedics injected him with the anesthetic ketamine. Prosecutors say that struggle contributed significantly to Elijah\u2019s death. The defense blames the paramedics. The jury\u2019s expected to get the case after today\u2019s closing arguments. Trial for the next suspect in the McClain matter, Officer Jason Woodyard, is expected to begin later this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The family of the late Elijah McClain has waited 4 years to see whether the paramedics and police officers involved in his death will face any penalties for it. They\u2019re expected to get those answers, starting this week\u2026 (McClain Case Jury vxr\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 […]<\/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-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","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=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}