Elijah McClain: officers to enter pleas to charges in death of Black man put in chokehold

23-year-old died after Colorado police put him in a chokehold and injected him with a large dose of the powerful sedative ketamine

A group of police officers and paramedics are scheduled Friday to enter pleas in Colorado court to charges in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who was put in a chokehold and injected with a powerful sedative two years ago in suburban Denver.

They were indicted by a state grand jury on manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and other charges in 2021.