A paramedic receives a mixed sentence for the death of a young black man during his arrest.

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A paramedic receives a mixed sentence for the death of a young black man during his arrest.

One of the two paramedics who injected a young black man with ketamine while he was being choked by US police was sentenced to a mixed sentence between a detention center and probation on Friday, in the final chapter of one of the flagship cases of the Black Lives Matter (Black Lives Matter) movement. Jeremy Cooper had been charged with manslaughter for the criminal negligence leading to the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old unarmed man who…