FILE – Sheneen McClain, Elijah McClain’s mother, is consoled by Omar Montgomery outside the Adams County, Colo., Justice Center, Dec. 22, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. Former Aurora Fire Department paramedic Jeremy Cooper faces up to three years in prison when he is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, April 26, 2024, for criminally negligent homicide in Elijah McClain’s death. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
FILE – Paramedic Jeremy Cooper, left, enters the Adams County, Colo., Justice Center, Dec. 22, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. The former Aurora Fire Department paramedic faces up to three years in prison when he is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, April 26, 2024, for criminally negligent homicide in Elijah McClain’s death. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
FILE – Sheneen McClain, Elijah McClain’s mother, is consoled by Omar Montgomery outside the Adams County, Colo., Justice Center, Dec. 22, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. Former Aurora Fire Department paramedic Jeremy Cooper faces up to three years in prison when he is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, April 26, 2024, for criminally negligent homicide in Elijah McClain’s death. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
FILE – Paramedic Jeremy Cooper, left, enters the Adams County, Colo., Justice Center, Dec. 22, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. The former Aurora Fire Department paramedic faces up to three years in prison when he is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, April 26, 2024, for criminally negligent homicide in Elijah McClain’s death. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
FILE – Sheneen McClain, Elijah McClain’s mother, is consoled by Omar Montgomery outside the Adams County, Colo., Justice Center, Dec. 22, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. Former Aurora Fire Department paramedic Jeremy Cooper faces up to three years in prison when he is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, April 26, 2024, for criminally negligent homicide in Elijah McClain’s death. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
FILE – Paramedic Jeremy Cooper, left, enters the Adams County, Colo., Justice Center, Dec. 22, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. The former Aurora Fire Department paramedic faces up to three years in prison when he is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, April 26, 2024, for criminally negligent homicide in Elijah McClain’s death. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
BRIGHTON, Colo. — A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative avoided prison and was sentenced to probation Friday after his homicide conviction in the Black man’s death, which helped fuel the 2020 racial injustice protests.
Jeremy Cooper had faced up to three years in prison after being found guilty in a jury trial last year of criminally negligent homicide. He administ ...
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