Former paramedic Jeremy Cooper, who injected Elijah McClain with ketamine before his death, wipes his eyes as he speaks in court during his sentencing, Friday, April 26, 2024, in Brighton, Colo. Cooper was convicted last year of criminally negligent homicide in the Black man’s death, which helped fuel the 2020 social justice protests. (ABC News One/Pool via AP; McClain’s photo Law&Crime file)
An ex-Colorado paramedic received probation after his conviction for criminally negligent homicide for injecting a heavy dose of ketamine into an unarmed Black man during a police stop in 2019.
Jeremy Cooper was sentenced to 14 months in jail with work release and probation in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain , 23, days after a confrontation with police responding to a 911 call of someone wearing a ski mask and “acting strangely.” Cooper had faced three years in prison. Judge Mark Warner noted that evidence showed Cooper did not purposely give McClain a ketamine overdose, rejecting prosecutors’ arguments that he had acted with indifference, The Associated Press reported.