A former paramedic faces up to three years in prison in a sentencing hearing Friday after he was convicted for his role in Elijah McClain's death.
DENVER — Almost five years after Elijah McClain died following a police stop in which he was put in a neck hold and injected with the powerful sedative ketamine , three of the five Denver-area responders prosecuted in the Black man's death have been convicted.
“I’m waiting on heaven to hand down everybody’s judgment. Because I know heaven ain’t gonna miss the mark,” she told The Associated Press. McClain’s name became a rallying cry in protests over racial injustice in policing that swept the U.S. in 2020. Previously, Judge Mark Warner sentenced officer Randy Roedema to 14 months in jail for criminally negligent homicide and misdemeanor assault.
To Sheneen McClain, it doesn't make sense that officer Nathan Woodyard, who stopped her son and put him in a neck hold, was acquitted, while officer Roedema received a lighter sentence than the paramedic Cichuniec. She thinks the paramedics’ role was to cover up what the police had done to her son.“I raised him by myself and I will continue to stand there for my son, regardless of whether anybody listens to me or not,” she said.
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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