Paramedics were the ones who killed Elijah McClain with ketamine.

Putting aside that police shouldn’t be utilizing drugs period, there is zero justification for administering drugs to someone who isn’t a danger to themselves or others, as was the case for McClain. It makes more sense when you realize that the Aurora PD is eighth in the nation for police killings per capita.

My fiancée has to deal with kids in the ER who got injected with too much ketamine by overzealous EMTs all the time. I don’t think limiting it to EMTs will solve the problem.

Someone with a minimum amount of training and who makes something close to minimum wage making these kinds of decisions is scary.

Many (not all) police departments cross-train police officers as EMTs. The two are not mutually exclusive and, in many ways, complement each other.

Full time EMTs aren’t trained enough to make good decisions about when it’s appropriate to administer ketamine and how much to give. A cop who did some EMT training but doesn’t use the skills full time is going to be even worse.

I am very much against the idea of police using ketamine, but I believe all street officers should be fully trained EMT's as well.

It wasn't the police who gave the med. It was paramedics.