5 years for US paramedic who injected an obviously fatal amount of ketamine into a 23 y/o Black man who had just been assaulted and detained by police for the crime of walking in public wearing a ski mask while black. Sentence was 5 years on one charge, and 1 year for criminally negligent homicide, served concurrently, so 5 actual. If he’s imprisoned he’ll be out in a couple of years on probation.
Medical mistakes are a lot more common in the US than here. So I would hope for a mistake, tho I can be naive. Don't understand why they would use ketamine when there are other meds that have the same effect and overdose is more difficult.
Trigger: racism.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/colorado-judge-sentence-paramedic-elijah-mcclain-killing-2024-03-01/
5 years for US paramedic who injected an obviously fatal amount of ketamine into a 23 y/o Black man who had just been assaulted and detained by police for the crime of walking in public wearing a ski mask while black. Sentence was 5 years on one charge, and 1 year for criminally negligent homicide, served concurrently, so 5 actual. If he’s imprisoned he’ll be out in a couple of years on probation.