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.
