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Elijah McClain protesters come face to face with Aurora, Colorado police on June 27, 2020.
  • Elijah McClain, an unarmed, 23-year-old Black man, died in 2019 after being arrested in Colorado.
  • One of the officers who arrested him was found guilty on Thursday of criminally negligent homicide.
  • Body camera footage showed officers putting McClain in a Carotid hold. Paramedics injected him with ketamine.

Jurors convicted a Denver-area police officer Thursday and acquitted another of charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became a rallying cry in protests over racial injustice in policing.

Aurora police officer Randy Roedema was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault. The 12-person jury found officer Jason Rosenblatt not guilty on all charges.