Officer Charged in Elijah McClain’s Killing Claims He ‘Was Expecting to Get Shot’ When He Held the Black Man In Chokehold, But Prosecutors Say the Dead Man Was Unarmed
An Aurora, Colorado, police officer who is one of five people criminally charged for the 2019 death of Elijah McClain testified in court for the first time this week. He said he had to remove himself from the scene because he was so overwhelmed after administering a chokehold on the unarmed 5-foot-7, 140-pound Black man…