Black Man (Elijah McClain) Murdered By Choke Hold In Colorado By Police
- Thread starter Knicksman20
- Start date
Knicksman20
Superstar
Yahoo is now a part of Verizon Media
Musicians Take On Tense Protests While Honoring Elijah McClain
After a day of marching through the streets of Aurora, calling for justice for Elijah McClain, tensions between some protesters and Aurora police lead to the release of chemical agents and physical force.
Musicians Take On Tense Protests While Honoring Elijah McClain
After a day of marching through the streets of Aurora, calling for justice for Elijah McClain, tensions between some protesters and Aurora police lead to the release of chemical agents and physical force.
Aurora's city counsel will be holding a vote on July 6 to open an independent investigation. I hope everyone active in this thread can take a few minutes to draft a statement and CC the entire board. The officers and EMT all need to be held accountable for the murder of this young man.
mcoffman@auroragov.org cmurillo@auroragov.org njohnsto@auroragov.org mberzins@auroragov.org jmarcano@auroragov.org acoombs@auroragov.org fbergan@auroragov.org cgardner@auroragov.org dgruber@auroragov.org ahiltz@auroragov.org alawson@auroragov.org
mcoffman@auroragov.org cmurillo@auroragov.org njohnsto@auroragov.org mberzins@auroragov.org jmarcano@auroragov.org acoombs@auroragov.org fbergan@auroragov.org cgardner@auroragov.org dgruber@auroragov.org ahiltz@auroragov.org alawson@auroragov.org
You better believe I'm bout to email these hoes
Tamir’s murder still has me fukked up.
This should be the main thing mentioned in these threadsThis stuff will only change when you put the fear of god in white people
Lotta of hard questions will need to be asked and only a few special ones can carry such a burden
.
This should be the main thing mentioned in these threads
They already fear us that's why they so jumpy and got an itchy trigger finger around us.
Red Shield
Global Domination
Not really
Their jumpy and have itchy trigger fingers.. because they want to kill us. Not because their "afraid" of us
I think it's fear and hate obviously. They fear us because they expect a revolt. They hate us because what's been instilled in them by their racist families and ancestors.
Never posted on these type of issues but this one really touched me. We as Black Men are truly under attack. This kid was harmless and didn't deserve to die. The war is waging and it's going to get worse unless they start making an example out of these cowards!
Last edited:
I aint never emailed no politician or any of that and I emailed all of them folks imploring them to charge these cops. America has a choice to make, either they start getting their house in order, or its about to be a big brain drain out this bytch for fear of our kids safety. African Americans built this mutherfukker, and we have more blood sweat and tears in this bytch then any other race has the right to claim aside from Native Americans. It feels like we been fixing up a fukked up house forever and now its kind of like fukk it, lets just sell this shyt and cop a new one somewhere else.
Dynamite James
The Main attraction
Colorado officers under investigation after troubling photos surface of them near Elijah McClain memorial
McClain was a 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019.
Photos have surfaced of Colorado police striking troubling poses near where an unarmed Black man was placed in a chokehold last summer and later died, prompting their chief to order an immediate internal investigation that she said could lead to their termination.
Interim Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson issued a statement late Monday night saying she has pulled multiple officers from street duty and made the probe into photos depicting them near a memorial for Elijah McClain a "top priority."
Wilson said she placed the officers on paid administrative leave "in non-enforcement capacities" after being informed on Thursday of the allegations stemming from the photos that were brought to the attention of the department's Internal Affairs bureau by an Aurora police officer.
"I was apprised of allegations reported to Internal Affairs by an Aurora Police Officer alleging multiple Aurora Police officers were depicted in photographs near the site where Elijah McClain died," Wilson said in her statement.
Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man who died days after he was subdued by three policemen and injected with a powerful sedative in August 2019, poses in an undated photograph in Aurora, Colo.Family Photo/Handout via Reuters
She added that she ordered an "accelerated investigation" that was completed Monday evening and plans to soon publicly release the results of the probe "in its entirety."
"This will include reports, photographic evidence obtained, officer’s names, and my final determination which can rise to the level of termination," Wilson said.
She did not immediately provide details of what the photos showed the officers doing.
Sheneen McClain, Elijah's mother, provided a strongly worded statement to ABC News, saying, "It’s bunch of smoke, Aurora Colorado has failed in providing justice to its citizens by allowing corrupt officials and police officers to roam the streets. I am not surprised that these photos are showing up now because the whole department is corrupt. Killers being protected by cowards and cowards being protected by killers. Aurora Colorado’s senior officials should be ashamed of their leadership, it seems like they did a lot of following others to hell!"
A joint statement issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the Denver division of the FBI said it was aware of the photographs and it was "gathering further information about that incident to determine whether a federal civil rights investigation is warranted."
The development came as the Aurora City Council has scheduled an emergency meeting for Tuesday night to discuss why police in riot gear on Saturday used batons and pepper spray on apparently peaceful protesters at a park, some playing violins in honor of McClain, who also played the instrument.
String players perform during a violin vigil for Elijah McClain in Washington Square Park in New York City, June 29, 2020. McClain was a 23-year-old Black man who died while in police custody after he was stopped while walking home in Aurora, Colorado last August. (Photo by Byron Smith/Getty Images)Byron Smith/Getty Images
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced on Thursday that he was appointing a special prosecutor to reinvestigate McClain's death and file charges if "the facts support prosecution." The FBI, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado and the DOJ's Civil Rights Division also said it had been gathering facts for a "potential" civil rights investigation since 2019.
McClain was walking home in Aurora, a suburb of Denver, after buying iced tea at a corner store on Aug. 24, 2019, when he was stopped by police, Mari Newman, an attorney for McClain's family, told ABC News last week.
He was wearing a ski mask on a warm night -- which Newman attributed to him getting cold -- when a person called 911 at 10:30 p.m. to report him acting "sketchy," according to an audio recording of the 911 call released by the Aurora Police Department.
The caller told a 911 operator that a man, later identified as McClain, "has a mask on" and "he might be a good person or a bad person." The caller went on to say no weapons were involved and when asked if he or anyone else was in danger, the caller said "No."
Police body-camera footage showed McClain walking on the sidewalk when three officers approached him, with one telling McClain multiple times to stop. But McClain, who was apparently listening to music at the time, continued to walk.
According to the body-camera footage, an officer put his hands on McClain, saying, "Stop tensing up." McClain replied, "Let go of me" and told the police that he was "just going home."
The officers took McClain to the ground and placed him in a carotid control hold -- which involves an officer placing his arm around a person's neck, restricting the flow of blood to the brain from the carotid arteries, according to a letter from Dave Young, the district attorney for Adams and Broomfield Counties, to then-Aurora Police Chief Nicholas Metz.
String players perform during a violin vigil for Elijah McClain in Washington Square Park in New York City, June 29, 2020. McClain was a 23-year-old Black man who died while in police custody after he was stopped while walking home in Aurora, Colorado last August.Byron Smith/Getty Images
McClain, who was placed in handcuffs, is seen in body-camera footage at one point throwing up after the struggle with officers while he is on the ground.
According to Young's letter, paramedics called to the scene said McClain remained combative and possibly suffered from a condition known as excited delirium. McClain was later administered, by paramedics, what Newman alleged was an "excessive dose" of ketamine, which is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anesthetic.
After McClain was put in an ambulance, he went into cardiac arrest, according to police. He died several days later.
A pathologist who conducted an autopsy was unable to conclude that the actions of any law enforcement officer caused the death, Young said in a statement he released last week.
While Young said McClain’s death "was both tragic and unnecessary," he declined to file criminal charges against the officers, saying, "In order to prove any form of homicide in the State of Colorado it is mandatory that the prosecution prove that the accused caused the death of the victim."
“Based on the facts and evidence of this investigation I cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers involved in this incident were not justified in their actions based on what they knew at the time of this incident," Young said.
ABC News' Ella Torres contributed to this report
McClain was a 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019.
Photos have surfaced of Colorado police striking troubling poses near where an unarmed Black man was placed in a chokehold last summer and later died, prompting their chief to order an immediate internal investigation that she said could lead to their termination.
Interim Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson issued a statement late Monday night saying she has pulled multiple officers from street duty and made the probe into photos depicting them near a memorial for Elijah McClain a "top priority."
Wilson said she placed the officers on paid administrative leave "in non-enforcement capacities" after being informed on Thursday of the allegations stemming from the photos that were brought to the attention of the department's Internal Affairs bureau by an Aurora police officer.
"I was apprised of allegations reported to Internal Affairs by an Aurora Police Officer alleging multiple Aurora Police officers were depicted in photographs near the site where Elijah McClain died," Wilson said in her statement.
Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man who died days after he was subdued by three policemen and injected with a powerful sedative in August 2019, poses in an undated photograph in Aurora, Colo.Family Photo/Handout via Reuters
She added that she ordered an "accelerated investigation" that was completed Monday evening and plans to soon publicly release the results of the probe "in its entirety."
"This will include reports, photographic evidence obtained, officer’s names, and my final determination which can rise to the level of termination," Wilson said.
She did not immediately provide details of what the photos showed the officers doing.
Sheneen McClain, Elijah's mother, provided a strongly worded statement to ABC News, saying, "It’s bunch of smoke, Aurora Colorado has failed in providing justice to its citizens by allowing corrupt officials and police officers to roam the streets. I am not surprised that these photos are showing up now because the whole department is corrupt. Killers being protected by cowards and cowards being protected by killers. Aurora Colorado’s senior officials should be ashamed of their leadership, it seems like they did a lot of following others to hell!"
A joint statement issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the Denver division of the FBI said it was aware of the photographs and it was "gathering further information about that incident to determine whether a federal civil rights investigation is warranted."
The development came as the Aurora City Council has scheduled an emergency meeting for Tuesday night to discuss why police in riot gear on Saturday used batons and pepper spray on apparently peaceful protesters at a park, some playing violins in honor of McClain, who also played the instrument.
String players perform during a violin vigil for Elijah McClain in Washington Square Park in New York City, June 29, 2020. McClain was a 23-year-old Black man who died while in police custody after he was stopped while walking home in Aurora, Colorado last August. (Photo by Byron Smith/Getty Images)Byron Smith/Getty Images
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced on Thursday that he was appointing a special prosecutor to reinvestigate McClain's death and file charges if "the facts support prosecution." The FBI, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado and the DOJ's Civil Rights Division also said it had been gathering facts for a "potential" civil rights investigation since 2019.
McClain was walking home in Aurora, a suburb of Denver, after buying iced tea at a corner store on Aug. 24, 2019, when he was stopped by police, Mari Newman, an attorney for McClain's family, told ABC News last week.
He was wearing a ski mask on a warm night -- which Newman attributed to him getting cold -- when a person called 911 at 10:30 p.m. to report him acting "sketchy," according to an audio recording of the 911 call released by the Aurora Police Department.
The caller told a 911 operator that a man, later identified as McClain, "has a mask on" and "he might be a good person or a bad person." The caller went on to say no weapons were involved and when asked if he or anyone else was in danger, the caller said "No."
Police body-camera footage showed McClain walking on the sidewalk when three officers approached him, with one telling McClain multiple times to stop. But McClain, who was apparently listening to music at the time, continued to walk.
According to the body-camera footage, an officer put his hands on McClain, saying, "Stop tensing up." McClain replied, "Let go of me" and told the police that he was "just going home."
The officers took McClain to the ground and placed him in a carotid control hold -- which involves an officer placing his arm around a person's neck, restricting the flow of blood to the brain from the carotid arteries, according to a letter from Dave Young, the district attorney for Adams and Broomfield Counties, to then-Aurora Police Chief Nicholas Metz.
String players perform during a violin vigil for Elijah McClain in Washington Square Park in New York City, June 29, 2020. McClain was a 23-year-old Black man who died while in police custody after he was stopped while walking home in Aurora, Colorado last August.Byron Smith/Getty Images
McClain, who was placed in handcuffs, is seen in body-camera footage at one point throwing up after the struggle with officers while he is on the ground.
According to Young's letter, paramedics called to the scene said McClain remained combative and possibly suffered from a condition known as excited delirium. McClain was later administered, by paramedics, what Newman alleged was an "excessive dose" of ketamine, which is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anesthetic.
After McClain was put in an ambulance, he went into cardiac arrest, according to police. He died several days later.
A pathologist who conducted an autopsy was unable to conclude that the actions of any law enforcement officer caused the death, Young said in a statement he released last week.
While Young said McClain’s death "was both tragic and unnecessary," he declined to file criminal charges against the officers, saying, "In order to prove any form of homicide in the State of Colorado it is mandatory that the prosecution prove that the accused caused the death of the victim."
“Based on the facts and evidence of this investigation I cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers involved in this incident were not justified in their actions based on what they knew at the time of this incident," Young said.
ABC News' Ella Torres contributed to this report
Cat piss martini
Veteran
racist crackas cant help themselves.
