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