A second Denver-area police officer has been acquitted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. The 23-year-old Black man was put in a neck hold and injected with ketamine after being stopped by police as he walked home from a convenience store.

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    8 months ago

    Literally putting ketamine in his system so they can use it as a ‘reason’ to beat and/or kill him. Cops out here lynching black men in modern daylight.

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        8 months ago

        Law enforcement who plans to beat a man to death for driving while black aren’t paramedics and shouldn’t be trusted to administer medicine of any kind.

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          I think they had actual paramedics administer the ketamine. They are also being tried later.