A trial is expected to open soon against two police officers charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who was forcibly detained while walking down a street near Denver
between the officers and the 23-year-old, who was stopped by police while returning home from a convenience store. He was unarmed.
Charges were not brought for two years after McClain's death, by which time the case along with others had sparked outrage and a national reckoning over racial injustice in American policing. McClain, using earbuds, initially kept walking as he carried a plastic bag and his phone. Within ten seconds, Woodyard put his hands on McClain, turning him around. As McClain tried to escape his grip, Woodyard said, “Relax, or I’m going to have to change this situation.”
The indictments followed an outcry over McClain's death during protests ignited by the police killing of. McClain's pleading words captured on body camera stating,"I'm an introvert and I'm different," drew widespread attention after Floyd's murder in Minneapolis.
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