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September 16, 2024

Paramedic Who Injected Elijah McClain with Deadly Dose of Ketamine Is Released Early from Prison
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In Colorado, a judge freed the white paramedic who was convicted of
homicide for injecting Elijah Mc Clain with ketamine in 2019, which led
to Mc Clain's death in hospital soon after. Peter Cichuniec had been
serving a five-year sentence for Mc Clain's death before a judge
converted it on Friday to four years of probation. Mc Clain, an unarmed
23-year-old Black man, had been walking home from a convenience store
when he was assaulted by Aurora police, who put him in a carotid hold,
before paramedics administered an excessive dose of ketamine into his
system.


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