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Elijah McClain’s mother, Sheneen, said it was a “very small acknowledgment for accountability” from the guilty verdicts in the trial of two paramedics charged with the death of her son, a 23-year-old unarmed Black man who was subdued by police and injected with a deadly dose of ketamine by paramedics while walking home from a convenience store in 2019.
A mostly white jury found Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec guilty of criminally negligent homicide on Friday after two days of deliberations. Cichuniec was also found guilty of second-degree assault.
“No, the 3 out of 5 convictions are not justice, the only thing the convictions serve is a very small acknowledgment for accountability in the justice systems,” she said in a statement posted to social media. “My son’s murder case is part of a continuum of hatred that is spread throughout this world.”
