Prosecutors say paramedics ignored Elijah McClain's distress after stop and killed him with overdose

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A Colorado prosecutor said Wednesday that two paramedics "did nothing" to help an ailing Elijah McClain as he lay on the ground and instead injected him with an overdose of a powerful sedative that killed the 23-year-old Black man after he had been weakened by police neck holds when officers forcibly restrained him walking home from a convenience store.

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