USA: Paramedic receives mixed sentence for death of young African-American man during detention

One of the two paramedics who injected a young African-American man with ketamine while he was strangled by the United States police, he was sentenced this Friday to a mixed sentence between a detention center and probation, in the final chapter of one of the emblematic cases of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Jeremy Cooper was charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Elijah McClainan unarmed 23-year-old man who died days after a fight with police in Colorado and who suffered cardiac arrest in the ambulance after his arrest.

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In a Colorado courtroom this Friday, Cooper, 49, was sentenced to 14 months in a detention center with the right to one day of work release, followed by four years of probation, local media reported.

Your colleague Pedro CichuniecConvicted of criminally negligent homicide and illegal administration of medication, he was sentenced to five years in prison last month.

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The episode occurred in August 2019, when Aurora police responded to a call from an African-American man. “suspect” what “acted strange” on the street and wore a balaclava.

The young man’s family alleged that he went out to buy iced tea and often wore a mask to keep warm because he suffered from anemia.

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One officer said McClain, who was unarmed, tried to grab another officer’s gun, but no evidence was presented to support that claim. While officers restrained him, Cichuniec and his colleague Jeremy Cooper injected him with ketamine to sedate him.

During the trial, the paramedics’ lawyers argued that their clients only followed protocol when administering a medication approved in Colorado to at-risk people. “agitated state”.

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Prosecutors responded that they ignored their training in working with distressed patients.

McClain’s death occurred months before the May 2020 Minneapolis murder George Floydanother African-American man, but attracted greater attention as protests against police brutality against minorities, especially African-Americans, grew.

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A celebrity-backed campaign led to a special investigation in which three police officers were charged, along with the two paramedics.

Two of the officers were acquitted, while the third was arrested in January for a 14-month sentence.

Source: Elcomercio

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