A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative was sentenced to probation.
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 him as the massage therapist was walking home in a Denver suburb in 2019.
Experts say the convictions would have been unheard of before 2020, when George Floyd’s murder sparked a nationwide reckoning over racist policing and deaths in police custody. “Without the reckoning over criminal justice and how people of color suffer at much higher rates from police use of force and violence, it’s very unlikely that anything would have come of this, that there would have been any charges, let alone convictions,” said David Harris, a University of Pittsburgh law professor and expert on racial profiling.
He added that he wished he knew more at the time, implying that he could have used that knowledge to help McClain.The judge who presided over the hearing Friday sentenced The second autopsy said McClain died because he was injected with ketamine after being forcibly restrained. Medical experts said by the time he received the sedative, McClain already was in a weakened state from forcible restraint that rendered him temporarily unconscious.Cooper’s attorneys did not immediately respond to telephone messages and emails seeking comment on the sentencing.
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