A group of police officers and paramedics have pleaded not guilty to a slew of charges in the death of a 23-year-old Black man who was forcibly restrained and injected with a powerful sedative.
Aurora Police officers Randy Roedema and Nathan Woodyard, former officer Jason Rosenblatt, and Fire Rescue paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Lt Peter Cichuniec entered pleas in court on Friday after having been indicted by a state grand jury on manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and other charges in 2021. Two years earlier, Elijah McClain died after being stopped while walking down the street in the Denver suburb of Aurora. A 911 caller had reported a man who seemed “sketchy.”
