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December 26, 2023

Two Paramedics Found Guilty of Negligent Homicide in Killing of Elijah McClain
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Here in the United States, a Colorado jury has found paramedics Jeremy
Cooper and Peter Cichuniec guilty of criminally negligent homicide in
the 2019 death of Elijah Mc Clain, a 23-year-old Black man who was
walking home from the store when he was tackled by police, placed in a
carotid hold and later injected with ketamine. An expert witness
testified there was "no reason" for the paramedics to give Mc Clain the
powerful sedative; they were also found to have failed to provide
medical care to Mc Clain after they drugged him and he lay handcuffed
and unconscious on the ground. He suffered a heart attack in the
ambulance and died in the hospital three days later. This was the last
of three trials over the killing of Elijah Mc Clain, after one officer
was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and assault, and two
other officers were acquitted.


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