“We are not God. I am not God. And we can’t always have positive outcome,” paramedic Peter Cichuniec tells judge
One of two paramedics has been sentenced to five years in prison while another awaits punishment at a hearing in April for injecting Elijah McClain with a fatal overdose of a sedative.
Police choked McClain in the middle of a street in Aurora area of Colorado, a US state, over suspicion and paramedics injected him with ketamine while he was handcuffed.
Paramedics Peter Cichuniec and Jeremy Cooper were found guilty in December of criminally negligent homicide as they failed to treat McClain appropriately after his confrontation with police, the BBC reported.
In 2019, McClain, a 23-year-old black massage therapist, was stopped by three police officers and was put in a chokehold by…
