Former Aurora officer Randy Roedema was sentenced to a jail work-release program. His attorneys said he fears “physical attacks” and suffers from anxiety.
9NEWS takes another look at the initial investigation to better understand what went wrong in the days, weeks and months following the death of Elijah McClain.AURORA, Colo. — When Jonathan Smith watched the videotaped interviews of the officers and medics involved in the death of Elijah McClain, the former head of special litigation for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice noticed something right away.
What we found, and what Smith tells us, is a window into how investigations of officer misconduct sometimes seek less to investigate and more to exonerate.When Adams County District Attorney Dave Young elected to clear the medics and officers of criminal charges three months after McClain’s death, he relied heavily on those videotaped interviews.But, Smith points out, Ingui appeared, at best, disinterested in the reasoning for the initial stop.
And, Smith said, “If didn’t precisely use the right words to justify the use of force, they were coached to do so by the investigator with Major Crimes." The report concluded, “The interviews conducted by Major Crime were neither probing nor thorough as would be expected in the case of an in-custody death.”
Juries acquitted Woodyard and Rosenblatt. Roedema is currently serving a 14-month jail sentence. Cooper is serving a 14-month work-release sentence. Cichuniec is serving a five-year prison sentence.
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