McClain was a massage therapist who is said to have loved animals and who taught himself to play the guitar and the violin, according to The Cut. McClain went into cardiac arrest on the way to a hospital. When medical responders arrived, after about 15 minutes, paramedics injected him with ketamine, a powerful sedative. McClain, officers brought him to the ground and used a carotid hold, which restricts blood to the brain to render someone unconscious. The police arrived, and after struggling to handcuff Mr. 24, 2019, when someone called 911, saying he “looked sketchy” and was wearing a ski mask and waving his arms. McClain was walking home from a convenience store on Aug. Two years after his death, a Colorado grand jury indicted three police officers and two paramedics on charges including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. One such case was Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019 after the police in Aurora, Colo., restrained him with a chokehold that has since been banned. As outrage over police brutality erupted across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s death, a wave of fresh attention and scrutiny was applied to older cases in which people died after encounters with the police.
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