A Colorado judge has sentenced a former paramedic to probation in the death of Elijah McClain.
FILE – Paramedic Jeremy Cooper, left, enters the Adams County, Colo., Justice Center, Dec. 22, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. The former Aurora Fire Department paramedic faces up to three years in prison when he is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, April 26, 2024, for criminally negligent homicide in Elijah McClain’s death.
The other paramedic and the officer sentenced in McClain’s death received more severe punishments than Cooper after being convicted on additional charges of assault. McClain’s name became a rallying cry in protests over racial injustice in policing that swept the U.S. in 2020. 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 ex-paramedic Peter Cichuniec in March to five years in prison for criminally negligent homicide and second-degree assault, the most serious of the charges faced by any of the responders. It was the shortest sentence allowed under the law.
Since the killings of Floyd, McClain and others put a spotlight on police custody deaths, many departments, paramedic units and those that train them have reexamined how they treat suspects. It could take years though to collect enough evidence to show if those efforts are working, said Candace McCoy, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
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