Elijah McClain was walking home from an Aurora, Colorado convenience store last August when officers confronted him after a 911 call for being “suspicious.” The governor appointed the state’s attorney general to investigate his death after no charges were filed.
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Elijah McClain: Special Prosecutor Appointed As Outrage Grows | NBC Nightly News
Hopefully that DA is voted out of office next election season
Now they need protection? Completely hilarious 😆 Where was Elijah’s protection?
So we are supposed to believe that a young man who likes to do a courtesy bow would decide to grab a cops 👮🥶gun. Complete and utter 🤬
Fu district attorney, fu dirty cops, fu EMTs, fu Karen caller to start all this!!! All of y’all are murderers!!
This is so so wrong.
Clearly young black men need to stay away from tea
Remember black folks everyone were black with ski mask if you all look alike they can’t tell who burned it down
This is so sad.
DA can’t find a crime? Put them on trial and I bet jurors will have no trouble finding a crime. Put the DA on trial as well. Privileged, racist, white man who had been protected by his privilege for way too long.
Police training has to include much more social work- dealing with people properly, de-escalation, etc. These ruff-tuff spoiled cops go right into the brute force- issuing commands, getting an attitude, etc. That’s all they know. Expand the job description. Whoever gave the injection is responsible for what happened. There’s no excuse for the cops misjudging a situation this badly.
Corruption coverup, they murder this kid only because he looks suspicious? They are animals should be in jail, yesterday
The cowardly low IQ pigs feared for their lives 🤮🤮🤮🐷🐽
What crime happen, so he died for nothing wtf
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The Hate against Minorities in AMERICAN won’t STOP!! America can’t justify Minority mistreatment!! My question is for America!! Why do you have so much resentment against The MINORITY Race? The entire National & International system is enforcing Racism!!! Racism is like DEATH!! You will never escape from it!!
These badge toting pieces of sh*t should all BEHIND BARS. The ambulance personnel should investigated & finally, that PIECE OF SH*T DA should be locked up or relieved of his duty permanantly. I can’t believe what these guys are going to get away with. THIS is absolute bullsh*t.
Who decided to administer the Ketamine?? see here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItwPIJjShJM
This didn’t need to happen. I can’t imagine the loss his family is dealing with right now. There needs to be a swift investigation with a decisive outcome. Cops need to stop killing Black men. Lady Liberty is crying for all of us right now. We have betrayed her.
The DA needs to be charged for obstruction and tampering as well.
Can’t wait till 4chan proves this is just a psyop lie for propaganda use!
I’ll be buying a gun soon to protect myself from the police.
They killed that young man !
Killer Aurora pd.
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He committed no crime and was murdered by cops
A beautiful soul but his black skin made him guilty until proven innocent.
Cops need to watch from a distance. If no crime is being committed, they should not be allowed to walk up and forcefully detain anyone. This is getting out of hand!
He had not committed a crime! No violent crime! Just another story of white cop killing a Blackman. 😢🥵😱😶😈
Shameful. America who theach orders country in the world Democratie with the right of our children’s is violated every hour. Shameful certains demoniaques. Supposed to be out in all police department arround the country they destroy the images of the good cop’s
This man was murdered by evil wicked pigs.
And now the cover up begins.
DA needs to be fired; the 3 three incompetent cops need to be fired; RACISTS-yup without a doubt absofrickinlutely!!
Who wears a ski mask to keep warm in warm weather. It was obviously warm cause the one guy was wearing shorts and a tank top. The cops don’t have coats and even the other people in the footage didn’t have coats. So that’s a lie on the families behalf. If he wanted to “keep warm” in warm weather then put a beanie on, you don’t need a whole ski mask
A person who has Anemia, do your research. You’re welcome.
ONLY IN AMERICA…. Can a black man who plays the violin to kittens….End up Beaten UP, DRUGGED, and DEAD on the way home from the Store.
Cups are natzi
Was Elijah autistic?… This is a fxxng nightmare. Too many sick cops make it bad for all the really good police officers out here. Fxxng nightmare.
The Police 👮♀️ killed him.Sad stuff
They followed policy. Policy is killing black people.
what an incredibly beautiful boy.
the situations changin on the pig haha
LOCK THEM ALL UP! SAVAGE MURDERERS!
i’m going to be the voice of reason here : MC-clain should of not resisted and not acted like an odd-ball. its like Simon-Says with the cops, if they say it, you have to do it, EXCEPT if its a crime.
🤷🏾♂️ I hate to bust your balls of reason: but uh… people with mental disabilities have to be approached different. Period. I’ve worked with all types of people and one thing I can tell you. Talking will get you a long way without the use of force. Speaking from personal experience with cops and irate patients. If you TALK to people you will get a lot accomplished. You use force and it will always turn into something bad. It’s just that simple.
@Nursing folyfe i’m thumbing you down.
ipressedabutton 🤷🏾♂️ok Use your BIGGEST 👎🏿
if i had to pin the blame on anyone, i start with the paramedics.
Should police be injecting drugs into a person’s viens?
As a fellow introvert, this one hits home
https://youtu.be/IlY9C6pzxKc
Who was Elijah…?
LoveForEli.com 🤍💙😢
We need to not let bad racist police officers cause a civil war, We should be fighting for ☮️ as the human race, Our Creator God is watching. Bad and racist Caucasian officers does not speak for all Caucasian citizens. But there are some Caucasians that are racist, if a officer is called for minority, their should be something called a minority assist, where these officers cannot engage unless an officer of that minority shows up. This can save a lot of lawsuits and deaths, police officers are supposed to deescalate situations not make them worst.
Murderers!!!! They need to go to prison and throw away the key never to see the light of day again.
You guys are going after the wrong people. The states law makers should be the ones prosecuted
Dam, am growing to hate police! Real hate!
This is sickening
No respect for authorities..he should have kept his mouth shut and done what he was told to do….
This is what SHOULD have happened.
Caller: There’s a guy with a mask on!
911 Dispatcher: That’s not a reason to call 911.
Caller: Well… he looks sketchy.
911 Dispatcher: That’s not a real thing.
Caller: …
911 Dispatcher: Stop wasting our time, Wayne. GOOD-BYE.
Internal investigation?…anytime someone dies in police custody there needs to be a 3rd party investigating wtf.
I’ll comment without a comment. TY.
Suspicious to be valid under law, has to have a Probable Cause. Also know as Reasonable Articulable Suspicion (There is evidence that crime was in the process of being committed, had been committed, or was going to be committed). A phone call reporting someone with a mask is not Probable Cause. And the simple fact that he was wearing a mask is not Probable Cause.
The Fashion Police infringed in his Civil Liberties because they did not his like mask, and because of that, he was brutally killed.
Oh sure so they put the cops on desk duty to protect them? Who was supposed to protect the kid they killed?
The person that made that phone call should be arrested for murder cuz at the end of the day it’s his fault if that kid died he should have never made that phone call
The problem was that he kept walking when they told him they wanted to talk to him. Someone called on him so they had the right to stop and question him. But he didn’t have to answer their questions after he stopped. He probably freaked out when he saw 3 cops pull up on him in the middle of the night, like most people would.
@1:10 the officer said “he’s schizo”…
“I have a right to stop you because you’re being suspicious”. Since when does walking home from the store justify a person as being suspicious? Those officers handled the entire situation in an ignorant and incompetent way.
If they had calmly approached Elijah and began a conversation with him such as asking him if everything is ok, where are you headed, he would have engaged in the conversation and he would be alive today.
The cops acted like criminals holding up a person except that they wear badges. I truly hope the case is reopened and they and the EEMT are tried and convicted and imprisoned because they killed an innocent human being.
🤦🏾♂️ and now it’s normal to see people walk around with masks on.
Poor kid.
why would someone call the cop if he paid for the food already who cares what he looks like or what is he wearing.
Tbh, I never even knew about this up until now
🤔So uh… the store clerk didn’t think to call the police…. so wtf he died for again?
Caller should be ashamed and prosecuted.
One false move, one hint of unothodoxxy and you’re dead
I am so TIRED of being “suspicious” because my skin is BROWN !
When the cops were informed they MURDERED Elijah. Their body acknowledged their guilt. One cop hangs his head. The cop says, “Are you serious?” [We didn’t mean to murder him. We just wanted to arrest him for being African AMERICAN.]
My God American officer not all of cause never learned or really racist from what have been happening previously? Stunned by American’s ppls lol
It’s murder plain and simple. This is so messed up on so many levels. The DA is as rotten as the cops.
He/She is simply strolling or walking, the other is jogging,
another one is out for a happy shopping,
the other is going out and about to the recreational park
for playing or bird watching, another one is out for a street partying and dancing, the other has decided too return to his/her rightful home for grooming or comforting, and finally this person has decided too slumber within his/her vehicle owned car for a meditative relaxing or sleeping.
These individuals little do they really know what was to
arrive next from a unexpected loud call from the Police.
They see the object subject with distrust and mistrust;
for whenever he/she goes out,
the Police believe they are out there to deceive.
Hence the unnecessary and untactful approach;
“Their sacred bodies will be interfered, invaded, and violated.
Sadly this very day or night, eventually killed!!
There last breath past away in death!!”
“All these matter occurred because of a bare mere hunch,
emotional suspicion, a negative flip-tip gossip,
or a random doom chance.
Which should have easily be based on
‘Intellectual Evidential Intelligence.’
As accurately and close as it can be, for many eyes too see!”
To Conclude: The whole drama of there approach, has brought reproach.
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The DA needs to step down.
that DA and the paramedics need to be fired
So sad the way they handled it
The caller should be sue for mistaken identity and false report. The Victim pay cash did not steal at the gas station.
The cops had a bloodlust that had to be satisfied somehow.
Those officers should get 50 years and those that shielded them deserve life for there crimes as well as the person who called 911
A year old news to instigate violence, Paid by China.
If they follow simple instruction, everything will be ok. If you fight, try to escape and grab weapons of police, things end up ugly.
Dave Young should be fired and arrest for helping them murders 🐷🐷
Screw policy it is a crime
It always starts with someone calling them. It should be public access to the 911 calls 📞
00:32 (1) NO miranda rights 00:40 (2)The Cops did not ask for ID. 1:11 (3) The EMTs gave Ketamine already to unconscious McClain instead of smelling seas. Ketamine – * Asthmatics or people with chronic obstructive airway disease
. *As a sedative for physically painful procedures in emergency department *Emergency surgery in field conditions in war zones *To supplement spinal or epidural anesthesia/analgesia using low doses * veterinary anesthesia (Wikipedia) MURDER???
01:19 You should not have pulled the plug. You have changed Hospitals. Take blood for evidences before something shady happens.
I just learned this and and upset.WHY NOT Let him walk home. CHARGE THE caller. THE REAL CRIMES ARE HAPPING WHILE 3 COPS attack a innocent American. He looked WHAT!?!???? GTFOH!
REST IN JESUS MY ANGEL
These police need to be murdered
this is why I’m not wearing a mask for corona and never have worn a mask as a black person. I don’t need anyone noticing me saying I’m suspicious. I don’t even walk around my nice neighborhood.
One 911 call changed his life
The paramedics should be held accountable for injecting this poisonous drug on black boys & girls.
They know the camera’s are on and they still LIE! Saying, he just grabbed my Gun! Racist Liars!!!
He was alive then he was dead. That was the crime.
he was such a good person too
DISGUSTING ALTOGETHER!! MURDERERS!!
The person who called 911 should be charged too accessory to the murder of an innocent person.
I could sense and for sure the one who called 911 is racist and white.
The paramedics gave him K
Suspicion for being black, this is ridiculous. This is a harmless 140 pound young man
His Death just like George Floyd!
Smh