Two Colorado paramedics were found guilty of criminally negligent homicide by a jury on Friday for their role in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who died after police roughly detained him, put him in a choke hold, and the medics injected him with a powerful sedative. The trial of paramedics Jeremy Cooper, 49, and Peter Cichuniec, 51, was the last of three involving the death of McClain, 23, who was stopped by police after a bystander reported he looked suspicious. The first ended with one police officer found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and another acquitted. The second ended with a third officer being acquitted in the death of McClain, who was not alleged to have committed any crime when officers stopped him.
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