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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

One of the two Aurora paramedics convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain was sentenced Friday to five years in prison.

Former Aurora Fire Rescue paramedic Peter Cichuniec’s sentence comes nearly three months after an Adams County jury found him and a second paramedic, Jeremy Cooper, guilty in the death of McClain, whom they injected with an overdose of the sedative ketamine after police put him in a neckhold.

It was the last trial against police and paramedics charged in the death of McClain, a 23-year-old Black massage therapist who was walking home from a convenience store when police forcibly detained him.

McClain was not armed and had not committed any crime.

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago

I'm glad that the paramedics were both found guilty, and that one of the 3 piece of shit cops were found guilty. But it's infuriating that the other two cops, Jason Rosenblatt and Nathan Woodyard, were acquitted. All 5 of them should be serving murder sentences in a federal prison.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

The part about the cops is so fucked up, one of them was actually reinstated and given 400k back pay then quit 2 months later.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I just wish that one of those chucklefucks on the police board would stop for just 5 seconds and think: "What are we incentivizing, here?"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Shows that he was in it to win rather than to do good.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago

"My son's murder is not a terrible tragedy regardless of how many times you reiterate those words in order to feel better," she said. "My son's murder was 100% avoidable."

God damn she worded that well. I'm glad she called out their bullshit pity party.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

100 people talking about how great he is, yet he actually murdered someone without a second thought.

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