- 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.