Colorado Officer Sentenced to 14 Months in Jail in Killing of Elijah McClain

Published on January 6, 2024

LONGMONT, COLORADO—A former Colorado police officer was sentenced to 14 months in jail for his role in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain, a young black man who was not suspected of any crime when police roughly restrained him and paramedics injected him with a powerful sedative. Former Aurora police officer Randy Roedema, 41, who faced up to three years in prison, was found guilty by a jury in October of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault. The same jury found fellow police officer Jason Rosenblatt, 35, not guilty in a joint trial. Judge Mark Warner sentenced Mr. Roedema to 14 months in jail for the third-degree assault conviction. He also ordered four years probation and 90 days incarceration, to be served concurrently with the assault sentence, for criminally negligent homicide....

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