Jeremy Cooper, the former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative, was sentenced to 14 months in jail with work release and probation on Friday, avoiding prison in the high-profile case that contributed to the 2020 racial injustice protests.
Cooper faced up to three years in prison after being found guilty of criminally negligent homicide last year. He administered a dose of ketamine to McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, who had been forcibly restrained by police while walking home in a Denver suburb in 2019.
