"Ex-Officer Sentenced to 14 Months for Role in Elijah McClain's Fatal Encounter"

Former Colorado police officer Randy Roedema has been sentenced to 14 months in jail for his involvement in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after being restrained by police and injected with ketamine by paramedics. McClain's mother criticized the sentence as insufficient. The case, which initially received little attention, was propelled into the spotlight after the killing of George Floyd in 2020, leading to a state grand jury indictment. Two paramedics were also convicted of criminally negligent homicide and await sentencing.