Elijah McClain: two Colorado paramedics convicted of criminally negligent homicide in 2019 killing
by Sam Levin in Los Angeles from US news | The Guardian on (#6HBJ5)
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Two Colorado paramedics have been convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Elijah McClain after he was stopped by police in 2019.
The jury's guilty verdicts on Friday for Aurora EMTs Peter Cichuniec and Jeremy Cooper mark an extraordinarily rare case of paramedics being found criminally liable for a civilian's death in police custody and follow years of protests. Cichuniec was also found guilty of second-degree assault. Cooper was acquitted on the assault charges.
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