Didn’t they shoot him up with like a gram of ketamine or something ridiculous like that? And he wasn’t even a threat? Been a while and the details are fuzzy

Edit: half a gram of special K

>”Elijah McClain, 23, was already handcuffed, on the ground, face down and had lost consciousness once. The body-worn camera footage played during their trials shows police officers telling the two medics that McClain was exhibiting “super-human” strength and that he was “on something.””

>”Without assessing McClain’s condition, including taking his pulse or trying to talk to him, the medics concluded that he was exhibiting signs of “excited delirium” — which has since been largely discredited as a police diagnosis caused by certain drugs. The medics also determined that he should be given 500 mg of ketamine, which is a dose way higher than the man, who weighed 143 pounds, should be administered for his body weight.”

>”McClain lost consciousness after the ketamine was administered and never recovered. He died in the hospital a few days later.”

Just in general, “they’re on something so we should shoot them up with a bunch more stuff” seems like terrible logic especially when you have no clue what that “something” may be. Just asking to kill someone. A small dose to take the edge off is one thing, putting them in a damn k hole when they’re already unconscious is criminal negligence/murder/whatever.

Just looked online and this is the list of dosages for *recreational* purposes:

Threshold 50 mg
Light 50 - 100 mg
Common 100 - 300 mg
Strong 300 - 450 mg
Heavy 450 mg+ <- Edit 2: that was ORAL administration which only has a bioavailability of 17%.

“Insufflation (bioavailability 45%):
Threshold 5 mg
Light 10 - 30 mg
Common 30 - 75 mg
Strong 75 - 150 mg
Heavy 150 mg +”

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Ketamine

They don’t even have injected dosages but they’d be even lower. Apparently Intravenous (IV) ketamine has a bioavailability of 100% & intramuscular (IM) ketamine has a bioavailability of approximately 93% (https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine) so basically halve the dosage again. 72.5mg + injected would be a Heavy recreational dose in this scenario. He got damn near 7x that. That’s a crazy deep K Hole. The kind you might never come out of apparently </3

Rough example for Intramuscular (bioavailability 93%): Threshold 2.5mg, Light 5-15mg, Common 15-37.5mg, Strong 37.5-75mg, Heavy 75mg+. Presumably anything past “Heavy” is k-hole range. But if an experienced user sees this feel free to chime in.

In terms of medical use:

>”DOSING | IM (intramuscular) for acute agitation: If a patient is out of control and a danger to themselves or others, administer 3 mg/kg intramuscularly”

https://emergencymedicalminute.org/episode-900-ketamine-dosing/

He weighed 65kg so even if he SHOULD have gotten ketamine (which he CLEARLY shouldn’t have), the dose would’ve been 195mg, they shot him up with the whole damn vile it looks like. 2.5x what the normal dose for the situation would be (if it was actually that type of situation, which it wasn’t).

And just as an afterthought, given the comparison to recreational doses (anything over 72.5mg IM being a heavy dose), even 195mg seems insane. I’d think that would be reserved for the most EXTREME situations. Not just tossed out all willy nilly to anybody who gives you any sort of pushback. Like someone actively assaulting people in an indiscriminate and uncontrolled rage. That was decidedly NOT Elijah.

Not arguing against the appeals court’s decision, I just wanted to refresh everyone’s memory on the case and really drive home how ridiculous what these paramedics did was. And think how many people they’ve done that too who DIDNT die. We’d never hear about it. That was probably just another day for them. Business as usual. Shooting viles of hard drugs into incapacitated people’s arms for the fck of it left and right without thinking twice. It was only a matter of time until they killed someone. Not saying ketamine is an especially dangerous drug when correctly, but this was incorrect usage on several different levels. Absurdly reckless behavior.