US Paramedic Sentenced Over Death Of Black Man During Arrest
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 27, 2024
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One of two paramedics who injected a young Black man with ketamine as he was put in a chokehold by US police was sentenced Friday to 14 months in jail with work release and probation, in the final chapter of a case that became a clarion call in the Black Lives Matter movement.
Jeremy Cooper had been convicted in December of criminally negligent homicide over the death of Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old who died several days after a struggle with police in Colorado.
He had suffered a cardiac arrest in . . .
