The jury in the trial of an Aurora police officer charged in the death of Elijah McClain has reached a not guilty verdict.
The jury in the trial of an Aurora police officer charged in the death of Elijah McClain reached a not guilty verdict on Monday afternoon. Nathan Woodyard was found not guilty of manslaughter and not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 death of the 23-year-old Black man who was walking home at night when an encounter with first responders led to his death. Woodyard is among three Aurora police officers and two paramedics charged in McClain's 2019 death.
Roger Mitchell of Howard University, the former Washington, D.C. coroner, said the police restraint caused a series of cascading health problems, including difficulty breathing and a buildup of acid in McClain's body.Prosecutors argued in the first trial that the police encouraged paramedics to give McClain ketamine by saying he had symptoms, like having increased strength, that indicate a controversial condition known as excited delirium.
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