Elijah McClain Paramedics
FILE - Demonstrators carry a banner while marching down Interstate 225 during a rally and march over the death of Elijah McClain, June 27, 2020, in Aurora, Colo. A trial for two of the officers charged for McClain's death is set to begin Friday, Sept. 15, 2023 with jury selection.
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A Colorado court reversed homicide convictions against two paramedics on Thursday in the ketamine overdose death of Elijah McClain after the Black man was pinned down by police. The court ordered new trials for Aurora Fire Rescue paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec. McClain had been forcibly restrained by police, who responded to a suspicious person complaint and stopped the massage therapist as he walked home from a convenience store in 2019. Cooper and Cichuniec were found guilty of criminally negligent homicide. Cichuniec also was convicted of felony assault, and the appeals court affirmed that conviction.
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