McClain, 23, was forcibly restrained and pinned down by police over a suspicious person complaint
A Colorado court reversed homicide convictions against two paramedics on Thursday in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who was pinned down by police and injected with a fatal dose of ketamine.
McClain’s final words – “I can’t breathe” – foreshadowed those of George Floyd a year later in Minneapolis, and the Colorado man’s name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the US in 2020.
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