In Colorado, Aurora police, medics indicted for 2019 death of Elijah McClain

[Jilly_in_VA]

Five suburban Denver police officers and medics have been indicted by a Colorado grand jury in connection with the death two years ago of a young Black man walking home from the store.

Elijah McClain, 23, died after being thrown to the ground, restrained and being injected with the tranquilizer Ketamine by Aurora police and medics on Aug. 24, 2019, responding to a 911 call that he had worn a face mask into a convenience store to buy some iced tea. He was not accused of a crime by the caller. McClain choked on his own vomit, had a heart attack and never recovered, his family said. He was declared brain dead in the hospital and died a few days later.

“Nothing will bring back my son, but I am thankful that his killers will finally be held accountable,” his father, LaWayne Mosley, said Wednesday in a statement.
McClain's family is also suing Aurora police, individual officers and the medics.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/01/aurora-police-medics-indicted-death-elijah-mcclain-young-black-man/5683272001/
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It is about goddam time!

[Historic NY]

1. About time, who the hell uses ketamine

as a treatment drug after a person was in a chokehold, it lowers blood pressure and heart rate.

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. They shouldn't have been using it anyway

Not without MD supervision. That stuff is fkn dangerous.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. It's frequently used as a chemical restraint by LE in conjunction with EMTs.

There's a big lobby out there that advocates for this. Try Googling "excited delirium".

[Jilly_in_VA]

10. "Excited delirium"

is a BS "diagnosis" used to justify the use of this. And the big lobby is mostly, I suspect, LEOs. You need to read up on so-called "excited delirium".

[Crunchy Frog]

11. I did read up on it. A lot, after the info came out about the McClain killing.

I know it's a bogus diagnosis, but looking it up seems to be the best way to find out about the push within LEO, and and adjacent medical providers, to advocate for its misuse in this fashion.

I'm sorry that I said anything though. It was obviously taken in the wrong way.

[uponit7771]

3. NICE !!! Fuckin asshole thug assed cops laughed after help murder Elijah

[Me.]

4. Have I Got This Right...He was Reported Because Of

a 911 call that he had worn a face mask into a convenience store to buy some iced tea. He was not accused of a crime by the caller.

THe caller should also be sued and jailed.

[DFW]

5. I wish I could think of a crime with which to charge the caller

Unfortunately, "being a stupid asshole to another person" is even less of a misdemeanor than a parking ticket.

[Me.]

6. Or Being Profiling Racist

[DFW]

7. Same penalty, alas

Or, more accurately, lack thereof.

[LiberatedUSA]

9. They likely followed the same train of thought...

…or should I say implication…I have seen on this site before when it comes to legally armed open carry people. The implication is to call the police and make it sound just enough of a problem without it being a lie, that the cops will come and “implied hope” be overly tigger happy; or to put it another way, have them SWATTED (which should not be a thing but is because our cops are trained like that).

The caller likely followed that logic and made an implication the mask was there for nefarious purposes without saying it outright.

Both types of calls are fake regardless of the reasoning.