Paramedic sentenced to 14 months in jail over the death of Elijah McClain

Published: 27 April 2024 at 03:22

Paramedic Jeremy Cooper was sentenced to 14 months in jail with work release and probation for criminally negligent homicide in the death of Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man. The incident occurred in Colorado in 2019, when police restrained McClain and the paramedics injected him with ketamine. Another paramedic, Peter Cichuniec, was previously sentenced to five years in prison for the same incident. The case sparked outrage and became a focal point for the Black Lives Matter movement.

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