The police officer who had his hands on Elijah McClain almost instantly when encountering him walking home 4 years ago from a convenience store, the suspended Nathan Woodyard, was acquitted by a jury Monday of reckless manslaughter and the lesser charge, criminally negligent homicide\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0(McClain’s Mom Reax wrap 1\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:44)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
231107 S McClain- no progress without accountability\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 :10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Q:…is not seen\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elijah McClain\u2019s mother, Sheneen McClain, saying the latest verdict regarding her son\u2019s 2019 death isn\u2019t justice, but is a delusion.\u00a0 Elijah died days after being put in a neck hold by Woodyard that cut off oxygen to his brain, pinned to the ground by Woodyard and other officers, and injected with the sedative ketamine (KEHT-uh-meen).\u00a0 McClain had done nothing wrong, but the initial 911 caller, who\u2019s never been identified, claimed he looked \u201csketchy\u201d walking home with a bag of 3 iced teas.\u00a0 Woodyard, who could now get his police job back, is the second officer to be acquitted of causing McClain\u2019s death.\u00a0 The case\u2019s 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0trial, of the paramedics who sedated Elijah, is coming up on the 27th<\/sup>\u00a0of this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n (McClain’s Mom Reax wrap 2\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0:44)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suspended Aurora Police Officer Nathan Woodyard has been acquitted by an Adams County jury of criminally negligent homicide and reckless manslaughter, in the case of Elijah McClain\u2019s August 2019 death\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Woodyard had been the first officer to stop the 23-year-old massage therapist and violinist as he walked home from a convenience store having done nothing wrong, but look supposedly \u201csketchy\u201d to a 911 caller while carrying a bag of iced tea. Woodyard put McClain in a neck hold that cut off oxygen to his brain before paramedics injected him with the sedative ketamine. Elijah\u2019s mother Sheneen McClain says the system let her down\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n 231107 S McClain- only one conviction so far\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 :14\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Q:\u2026they are delusional\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n So far, the only person convicted of a crime for Elijah\u2019s death has been ex-officer Randy Roedema (roh-DEE-muh), found guilty last month of criminally negligent homicide and assault. He could go to prison for 6 years, but could also get probation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The police officer who had his hands on Elijah McClain almost instantly when encountering him walking home 4 years ago from a convenience store, the suspended Nathan Woodyard, was acquitted by a jury Monday of reckless manslaughter and the lesser charge, criminally negligent homicide\u2026 \u00a0(McClain’s Mom Reax wrap 1\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-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","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=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}