A jury of Coloradoin USAhas declared guilty of homicide for criminal negligence of paramedics accused of inject a strong sedative a Elijah McClain, un joven Afro-American 23-year-old who had just been detained by Aurora City Police just for looking suspicious.
The twenty-something died three days later in the hospital because of the injection, specifically suffering from Ketamine overdose.
The events date back exactly to 2019, when the young black man was arrested on the street by three white police officers. Was subjected violently on the ground and shortly after the two paramedics now found guilty arrived.
They both gave him a powerful sedative to calm him down and, three days later, on August 30, 2019, he lost his life in a hospital due to this.
The protests over his death end with the sentencing of the two paramedics
The event caused a great commotion and once again generated multiple protests against racism in Colorado, even leading to police reform in the Denver suburb.
Now, the two paramedics, Peter Cichuniec and Jeremy Cooper, have been considered guilty of death of the young man, whose autopsy was conclusive in determining that he died from a ketamine overdose.
In addition, Cichuniec, who was also found guilty of a charge of assault, was placed in preventive detention by the judge, while Cooper will remain free on bail, according to EFE.
Regarding the three agents police officers who stopped him when the young man was walking home from a store with a bag of cans of iced tea, and only for the fact that His profile matched that of a suspectonly one was convicted of homicide.
Specifically, they are Randy Roedema, Nathan Woodyard and Jason Rosenblatt, and only the first was convicted of that charge, while the other two were acquitted.
Furthermore, in 2020, two Aurora police officers were fired for having sent Rosenblatt a photograph in which they sarcastically recreated the constriction at the place where McClain was arrested, who was subdued to the ground using a control technique known as “carotid restriction”which blocks blood flow to the brain and can cause a brief period of unconsciousness.
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2023-12-23 14:35:23
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