Colorado paramedic sentenced to 14 months of work release in Elijah McClain's death
LONGMONT, Colorado -A Colorado judge on Friday sentenced a paramedic convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain to 14 months in a work-release program and four years of probation.
One police officer was sentenced to 14 months in jail, two officers were found not guilty, and Cooper's fellow paramedic was sentenced to five years in prison. Paramedics rarely face charges in such cases. "America will never be what it could be because it does not look at all its citizens as one race - the human race," Sheneen McClain said."Long live Elijah McClain, always and forever!"
"But when Elijah McClain was murdered, we were able to make a lot of progress in a lot of areas that people wanted to ignore or say did not happen here in Colorado," the Democrat said. Among other Colorado laws and measures taken since McClain's death that even more directly stem from the details of his case:- Prohibitions on police officers pushing paramedics to use the ketamine on a suspect;
Alexander Landau, co-director of the Denver Justice Project, a community group pushing for police reforms, said McClain's case also puts a focus on district attorneys, elected officials who decide if charges are brought.
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