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Elijah McClain death: Paramedics who injected Colorado Black man with ketamine found guilty (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave to c/health

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A Colorado jury on Friday found two paramedics guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Elijah McClain near his home in Aurora. The 23-year-old Black man was walking home in 2019 when he was confronted by police officers who forcibly restrained him and then the Aurora Fire Rescue paramedics -- Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec -- injected him with ketamine.

He went into cardiac arrest in an ambulance a few minutes later and died three days later.

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[–] Mortoc 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did the paramedics ever say why? Were they just being sadistic and toying with him or was something else going on? Either way, what the fuck…

[–] username_unavailable 11 points 1 year ago

I could be wrong, but I recall it being "the cops said to".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Their defense was that it was part of their training that they should give ketamine to "excited delirium" patients and that they were taught it can't kill somebody. I didn't get any reason as to why they would diagnose an unconscious man as having "excited delirium".