23-year-old Elijah McClain, who had special needs, was murdered by Aurora police last August and millions of people are calling for justice.
“He is laying on the ground vomiting, he is begging, he is saying, ‘I can’t breathe.’ One of the officers says, ‘Don’t move again. If you move again, I’m calling in a dog to bite you,'” Mari Newman, the McClain family attorney, says in the petition., Elijah did not heed initial police commands to stop walking, and the interaction escalated physically from that point.
Elijah was never suspected of any specific crime in connection with the incident, and he was unarmed. Two Aurora police officers claim Elijah reached for one officer’s holstered handgun while he was being pinned down with excessive physical force to the point of unconsciousness.“I can’t breathe.I’m an introvert. I’m just different. That’s all.I have no gun. I don’t do that stuff. I don’t do any fighting.
whether McClain’s death was an accident, a result of natural causes, or if it’s a homicide directly related to the police department’s use of a carotid hold. The officers on the scene were placed on temporary leave in the aftermath of the incident, but are currently back to work in the field with no charges against them.
The petition specifically calls on Adams County District Attorney Dave Young, Mayor Mike Coffman and the Aurora Police Department, to conduct “a more in-depth investigation” and remove the officers involved from duty.and every Black person murdered by police, Elijah’s story is finally gaining the national attention it deserved last summer.
The district attorney’s office has been slammed with thousands of emails and calls and the local police department has received hundreds of complaints. “I don’t open up investigations based on petitions,” district attorney Young toldOne of the most painful things about the
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