A Colorado paramedic was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020. It was a rare prosecution of medical responders that has left officials rethinking how they treat people in police custody. Peter Cichuniec learned his punishment during a court hearing Friday. He and a fellow paramedic who administered a sedative that contributed to McClain’s death were convicted in December of criminally negligent homicide. Cichuniec was also found guilty of the more serious charge of second-degree assault. McClain’s death became a social justice rallying cry amid the racial injustice protests that swept the nation in 202