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.
Link inside this article, at least 94 people have died from sedatives when restrained by police from 2012 to 2021.
Would be interesting to note how many people have been given sedatives at all when restrained by police… averaging 9-10 deaths/year should definitely cause us to rethink the viability and even legality of this practice.
