The paramedics were found guilty of criminally negligent homicide for injecting McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, with an overdose of ketamine after police put him in a neck hold.
When the police stopped McClain he was listening to music and wearing a mask that covered most of his face because he had a blood circulation disorder. The police stop quickly became physical after McClain, seemingly caught off guard, asked to be left alone. He had not been accused of committing any crime.
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Two Denver-area paramedics were convicted Friday for giving a fatal overdose of the sedative ketamine to Elijah McClain in 2019 - a jury verdict that experts said could have a chilling effect on first responders around the country.