Police officers and paramedics in Aurora, Colorado are facing criminal charges in the death of Elijah McClain. Colorado’s Attorney General has opened up a civil rights investigation into whether the Aurora Police Department’s actions were part of a pattern. The police union says the officers “did nothing wrong.”» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC
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Police Officers, Paramedics Charged With The Death of Elijah McClain
The fact that the police is not taking responsibility is i clear indication of the power’s at hand they should clean house
12 of 17 all _RoboCops_ in AmurderQa.
12 of 17 all _RoboCops_ in AmurderKa Ka K.
Why did they even approach him? he wasn’t doing anything wrong in the first place.
officers should at least be held accountable for being stupid.
When people start popping off at police for unwarranted stops, they will understand. If you think a vast majority of police aren’t corrupt you are mistaken. “Officer discretion” is a code for “I say who the law applies to”
Innocent young men should just comply with the requests from officers !
RESISTING ARREST NEVER EVER HELPS !
This is the worst one yet..
The irony.. Young Man was stopped because he was wearing a Mask.. now the entire country is wearing Masks.
Just had this exact thought.
But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
I cannot believe this level of dysfunction
Elijah was a stupid man
You say as you defend officers drugging a man to death for the crime of having headphones in. Keep licking those boots.
@AA610 If u don’t wanna die u better obey what officer said… Or u could ended up like stupidest of stupidest Elijah McClain and George Floyd.
Victim blaming like wife beaters and rapists do?
Violently resisting arrest?! We all saw the video what the heck are they smoking?
Dirty dirty pigs 🐷 and paramedics should be put in a chair you killed that boy for no reason
😔😔😔 he not here but he got justice. R.i.p
The murder of Elijah McClain was tragic. After watching the entire police cam footage, anyone can understand why. Glad they’re all being charged, but it won’t bring this gentle soul back. No justice.
Shame
There’s your real back the blue right there. Sue them
Good. Finally.
If they could have hung him from a tree they would. I hope the jury remember that.
Whoever made that phone call I’m sure is regretting it.
That word indictment is not a good word.
Forced injected. Remember that.
Wow 😲 they did nothing cops or da. Wow sick colo
He tried to them his condition they would not listen.
Justice is slow. Too slow!
THUGS!!!
I HOPE THEY GET LIFE.
Poor fella cos he black, typical. i love you elijah ❤
Rest assured. Civil liberties are just an illusion so long as agents of the state can assault and drug any citizen they deem unworthy. They murdered a kind boy thinking he was just another black nobody. Let their lives be altered forever as well.
I feel like we should take that thin blue line and wrap it around some of these cop’s neck.
“To serve and protect” is just code for “To punish and enslave.”
This was one of the saddest deaths. This young man had the heart of an angel. I hope those murderers spend the rest of their life in jail.
Unfortunately been wierd or different in this climate isnt good.
Show us their faces please stop protecting them!!!
Yes Yes Yes LORD!!!
RIP bro..
https://youtu.be/y2NM6CFmOJ4
I’m glad to see that the perpetrators of this murder were finally charged but honestly how could it have taken this long?
The official excuse was COVID making it difficult to convene a grand jury. However, the tradeoff for this taking so long is that the case could now fall under new Colorado law that effectively strips police of their qualified immunity defense in cases like this.
RIP Elijah Mcclain
If this is not
Police/ Paramedic Abuse nothing is.
His saddening death was wrong and his family deserves justice. Because his african american family knows how easily things can go wrong in the hands of the police or out in the streets at night they should have taught him how to dress and behave in public. He was not aware of the presence of danger because of those headphones and he was covered head to toe in black in the dark. Most black people know not to be out in public that way if they don’t want to be bothered. He should be aware of his surroundings at all times. That does not excuse the police and paramedics for killing him. They deserve all the punishment coming to them and his family deserve a huge payday. However. He would still be alive if he was paying attention to his surroundings and didn’t cancel out the sound of his surroundings. He should have been left alone by the police making anything I said above invalid and unnecessary but his death proves that he cannot trust his surroundings in this day and age.
I hope those murderer and jokers get life
this was and is still such a heartbreaking story man. this kid should’ve never even been confronted by police. may he continue to rest in peace and i hope these murdering animals get everything they deserve.
Hope the cops receive Justice In their face
Here we go, another non-ID person who is afraid of cops but is willing to fight with 5 of them.
9 children shot in Chicago since Monday. 72 are killed every month. Because CPD figure out how not to get in trouble. Show up after everyone has left. Smart . And they still solve 17% of their cases.
Isn’t Liberalism great .
This is out of control probably citizen killing citizens. Can’t compare to cops who should uphold the law and administer the law. Most likely its cops committing many of these crimes in Chicago to create a certain narrative, funding, & and to fulfill their sadistic psychopathic needs. Chicago has the most survellaince cameras yet all these crimes happen under the nose of these cameras. Hmmmm!
@Claude Brown You are why the killings will only get worst. Chicago is actual #8 on the list . St Louis is the worst . See how I tricked you. 😁
@Noit Awl Sociopathic, psychopathic, drug dealing, etc. cops are behind Chicago crisis.
Aurora Police Association should be f%/king ashamed of themselves, to even release a statement like that. But apparently men in uniform can’t feel that emotion. Police are insecure, emotionally immature, control freaks. I hope they all get what they deserve. I’m just so disgusted by this.
The cops had no probable cause to stop/detain him, yet they ordered him to stop and then went hands on 10 seconds later. The cops having no probable cause would be the same as an ordinary citizen placing hands on someone just walking down the public sidewalk. The local DA admitted that there was no probable cause to stop/detain him in the first place, but still concluded in the end that the officers “did nothing wrong.” Total contradictory and BS statements just to protect the cops involved.
Give them time behind bars!
The most violent gang is America is the POLICE!
Jesus please come back soon!!! We are ready to be with Your Lord!!!
Those police officers are not haro there killers and racist this unacceptable just why come on how time does police officers killed African American this unacceptable and the judge did not bring Justice to stop police officers from keeping a African Americans JUST WHY JUST WHY, now am very very angry right now 👊😡😡😡😡
Manslaughter is not fair should be murder how can we stand for this crap and lies from our government set to protect the common wealth of the people who are being murdered by the government it’s not safe when cops are out
https://youtu.be/BI56CZTamrM
Tatum was wrong about this
Trump strikes again!
Justice
Indicting paramedics for making a mistake?? So does that mean doctors should go to prison for accidentally killing someone?
Awe the cops need some love too they are people too. Not their fault you aloud them to be cops don’t be mad at them they have feelings too. Give them more guns and more power come on y’all pay their salary’s quit your jobs to defund them other than that this is gonna keep on happening not their fault u pay them to murder innocent people
Manslaughter!? Looked like murder to me
The comment our officers did nothing wrong ignores the simple fact that there was no reason to.engage.with Elijah. He had not done anything illegal. Everything that happened here is the sole responsibility of the first responders, man up and take responsibility for what you.did.
What was he being arrested for?
RIP 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Finally!!!! The paramedic should be charged!!! Suspicious person isn’t a misdemeanor or felony…. Whatever happens to observing a suspect?
I swear I don’t even know a good policing it looks like anymore!!!
Elijah looks like a female to male.
If I ever have the opportunity to helping a dying black man, I’m just gonna walk off.
Oh my, another suspicious man! Oh that’s right he was black so he was not consider really a man he was considered a vicious animal. And don’t forget it wasn’t a hate crime because he wasn’t another group who have hate crimes for them who have lower than 1/10-1/25% of hate crimes against them than Blacks. Hey, and it only took 2 years to say that this person’s death was really a murder🔪🗡
WTF??? Ketermine? An adult gets that drug in order to intubate them. Were they ready to tube this guy? Do they have the ET tubes out and the Ambu bags in which to breathe for him? I bet not! And guess what folks?The paramedics should’ve been charged in the George Floyd case, but you never heard about them did you?
Good. It’s been too long
Makes me soooo sad….my nephew has tourettes and it worries me that him being a black man and if he can’t get his words together and out quickly, will someone hurt him..God shield our children…
🙏🙏
Cold comfort.
Of course sadly this news cast wont even show the officers faces. It is “unusual” for officers. . . Ok calm down now show the truth for once
We need to get rid of Police Unions all together. It’s CLEARLY the source of all corruption in law enforcement.
I’m glad stupid people should not be cops or paramedics.
Won’t hold my breath for a conviction
Call it what it is MURDER
Finally!
Youi left out all the important parts of him resisting.
Othal Wallace knew how deadly these unwarranted intrusions by the police could get and chose not to be a victim.
God bless America
Mi
Peaceful blessing’s to the innocent Elijah McClain.
Yeah and they wonder why people attack emts, and don’t like doctors they are all accessories.
They were charged, not convicted…y’all are a bunch of fools to think you’re gonna see any justice here…
They gave him Ketamine? WTF is wrong with these people?
They’re going to have fun in prison.
This is why innocent people run from cops and so many people hate cops.
Suspicion man wearing a mask…. Aint thats half the world population right now ,we in a pandemic…they will have to answer to karma headed full speed in there direction. This is ridiculous.
Elijah is innocent & deserves Respect since he was not arrested in the proper manner. My Condolence to Elijah’s Family.
R.I.P Elijah McClain
Yikes, he didn’t died out of choice. Glad those responsible are getting charged
more racist cops killing citizens and getting away with it to the point that we, the taxpayers, have to pay for all this. take it out of their pension. end immunity.
I pray for police officers everywhere and my heart goes out to them for the hard job that they have…
But I cried for this boy. I cried with such anger and hurt. I prayed to God and asked why the police and paramedics got away with killing Elijah. I can’t believe I’m seeing this right now…. I thought everybody forgot about him…. I pray this young man has justice in Jesus name
JUSTICE for Elijah. Don’t forget about him!
“It’s extremely rare” for this to happen to any other race. All of the parties involved need life in Ruckers!
They should be thrown into jail .
The police officers should be put on death row .
As for the Police Union should be disbanded
How can they say those guys “did nothing wrong”? Wtf
Murderous thugs, that is the only thing these policemen are. This is beyond criminal, this is an assault on humanity itself. This police department is an accomplice to murder and needs to be fully reorganised. The police union is an accomplice to murder, time and time again as they shuffles this pathetic excuses of human being time and time again after their reprehensible actions.
None of these ruling bring back Elijah McClain. What a senseless tragedy that should never happen in a so called free country where just being black makes you guilty.
Blue Lives Matter what is your reaction to these policemen actions? Will you find an excuse for these murderers?
Like she said, nobody is not above the Law
Cowards