Colorado Officer Found Not Guilty

The Colorado police officer who allegedly arrested Elijah McClain in 2019 has been acquitted of fees in connection to the 23-year-old’s demise. As The Shade Room beforehand reported, McClain handed away whereas in police custody.

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More Details Regarding The Colorado Ruling

According to ABC News, a jury acquitted Nathan Woodyard on Monday. Woodyard reportedly pled not responsible to fees of “reckless manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide” in connection to McClain’s demise.

The outlet reviews that Woodyard was the primary officer to reply to a 911 name reporting McClain as a “suspicious person wearing a ski mask.” From there, Woodyard allegedly positioned McClain in a carotid maintain.

As beforehand reported by The Shade Room, the carotid maintain is a “restraint technique.” Furthermore, the maintain “restricts blood flow to the brain, causing temporary unconsciousness.”

According to ABC News, the prosecution argued that Woodyard inserting McClain within the restraint triggered the 23-year-old hassle respiratory. Additionally, it led McClain to choke on his vomit whereas Woodyard and different officers gave him no assist.

“This trial is about the defendant and his teammates doing nothing to help Elijah McClain. This trial is about their continued callousness and indifference to Mr. McClain’s suffering,” Assistant Attorney General Ann Joyce reportedly advised the court docket, per ABC News.

Meanwhile, Woodyard’s protection workforce reportedly argued that the ketamine sedative administered to the 23-year-old throughout his arrest in the end triggered McClain’s passing.

“The evidence cannot leave the real possibility that Nathan did not know that the paramedics would come in and overdose,” Woodyard’s lawyer Andrew Ho reportedly defined, per ABC News.

According to CNN, Woodyard is suspended with out pay from the Aurora police pressure pending the end result of his trial.

The Defense Attorneys, Prosecution & Elijah McClain’s Mother Reacts To The Latest Verdict

Woodyard’s attorneys shared an announcement after the decision, per ABC News.

“We are respectful of the process in what is a very difficult case,” Woodyard’s legal professionals, Megan Downing and Andrew Ho, reportedly defined. “We have never disregarded the tragic circumstances, but are relieved for what we believe is the just outcome for our client.”

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser shared an announcement on behalf of the prosecution.

“Today’s verdict is not the one we hoped for, but we respect the jury system and accept this outcome,” Weiser reportedly defined. “I thank the jurors for serving and performing their civic duty… We remain undeterred in our pursuit of accountability and justice for Elijah McClain and his family and friends.”

McClain’s mom, Sheneen McClain, additionally shared her ideas on the most recent verdict.

“It lets us down, not just people of color, it lets down everybody. They don’t do the right thing, they always do the bare minimum…,” McClain defined. “

It’s simply unlucky that the folks that stopped my son, brutalized my son, tortured my son, get away with homicide, and their passing on what they did to the medical professionals that also had been imagined to do their job. Nobody did. So it’s simply unlucky that they’re inserting the blame and passing the buck.”

More Details Regarding Elijah McClain’s Death & Its Prosecution

As The Shade Room beforehand reported, McClain was confronted by police whereas leaving a comfort retailer on the night of August 24, 2019. Officers reportedly wrestled the 23-year-old to the bottom and positioned McClain in a carotid maintain.

The officers alleged that McClain resisted their instructions, whereas it was additionally reported that McClain tried to adjust to officers. The 23-year-old allegedly knowledgeable authorities that their actions restricted his respiratory. However, McClain was then injected with ketamine and suffered a coronary heart assault whereas he was transported to a hospital.

McClain in the end handed away three days later.

Since then, a coroner’s report has alleged {that a} ketamine overdose led to McClain’s demise. Additionally, the post-mortem reportedly acknowledged that McClain could be alive had he not been given the sedative.

Since the 23-year-old’s demise, Colorado officer Randy Roedema has been convicted of “criminally negligent homicide and assault.” According to ABC News, Roedema faces as much as 5 years in jail. Additionally, a former Colorado officer named Jason Rosenblatt has been acquitted of “reckless manslaughter and assault.”

According to CNN, two EMTs who additionally arrived on the scene throughout McClain’s arrest will go on trial “in the coming weeks.”