A Colorado judge has sentenced a former paramedic to probation in the death of Elijah McClain.

BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative avoided prison and was sentenced to probation Friday after his homicide conviction in the Black man’s death, which helped fuel the 2020 racial injustice protests.

Jeremy Cooper had faced up to three years in prison after being found guilty in a jury trial last year of criminally negligent homicide. He administered a dose of ketamine to McClain, 23, who had been forcibly restrained after police stopped himas the massage therapist was walking home in a Denver suburb in 2019.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    This specific case enrages me. The number of people who needed to fuck up for it to go this badly…

    (starting with the Karen who called them in the first place)

    So far as I can tell, light sentences and home team advantage all around. And not a shred of sincere remorse for what happened to that young man that I can tell.

    Edit - Against all odds and with quite unique circumstances there was something resembling justice for George Floyd. Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, and others are getting the more familiar treatment.