Peter Cichuniec, a Black paramedic whose actions during the death of Elijah McClain in 2019 sparked national outrage and calls for police reform, has been released from prison after a judge reduced his sentence. Judge Mark Warner cited “unusual and extenuating circumstances” in modifying the sentence to four years probation.
FILE - Lawyers console paramedic Peter Cichuniec after his sentence is read, March 1, 2024, in Brighton, Colo. , a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020, is being released from prison after a judge reduced his sentence to four years of probation Friday.
McClain was walking down the street in a Denver suburb in 2019 when police responding to a suspicious person report forcibly restrained him and put him in a neck hold. His final words — “I can’t breathe” — foreshadowed those of George Floyd a year later in Minneapolis. The case has already achieved a “deterrence effect” to discourage similar crimes, Warner said in the hearing in Denver.
Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser said in a statement that he was disappointed in the reduced sentence but respected the court's decision.
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