The sentencing caps a series of trials that resulted in three convictions.
A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative avoided prison Friday and was sentenced to 14 months in jail with work release and probation in the killing of the Black man that helped fuel the 2020 racial injustice protests.
The other paramedic involved in McClain's death received a more severe punishment after being convicted on an additional charge of felony assault. She later told reporters that she wasn't expecting much from the trials and wasn't surprised Cooper avoided prison time."We won, Elijah won," she said. "Without the reckoning over criminal justice and how people of color suffer at much higher rates from police use of force and violence, it's very unlikely that anything would have come of this, that there would have been any charges, let alone convictions," said David Harris, a University of Pittsburgh law professor and expert on racial profiling.
Cooper's attorney and wife and fellow firefighters urged the judge to show leniency. They described him saving people from fires, jumping into floodwaters to help an older woman and using CPR to try to save a child who died in a fire. The second autopsy said McClain died because he was injected with ketamine after being forcibly restrained.
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