A Colorado jury on Friday found two paramedics guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Elijah McClain near his home in Aurora.

For those wondering about the cop angle, the cops ordered it.

““The firefighters/paramedics could have made a difference for Elijah to still be here and alive, but they chose wrong instead of right. If they had done the right things instead of following killer cop orders, then the killer cops would have been the only ones on trial, and I am sure they would have faced all of the blame alone with no one to cover up their crimes. Ketamine causes amnesia, so if Elijah had survived, he wouldn’t have remembered what happened to him,” she said, in part.”

  • squiblet@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    This has some personal relevance to me as the first time I heard of police injecting people with ketamine, I was wtf, that sounds awful, seriously? I got into a conversation on a local subspez and 2-3 people who claimed to be EMTs responded and said NO, it is GREAT, of course we inject people with ketamine. Knowing the pharmacology of ketamine I pointed out that is really disturbing, like, not only is it physically dangerous but nobody wants to do drugs with cops. Ketamine is PCP Lite. They told me no, no, I was super-wrong. I can only hope if those people were real EMTs (it was on /r/Denver) they have figured out it is a bad idea. But as recently as last month someone on the same sub (yes, I still talk on reddit sorry) told me NO, “I am an EMT” and giving ketamine to people subdued by police is fantastic.