On Aug 24 2019, Elijah McClain, 23, was detained and assaulted by Aurora, CO police while walking home with a bottle of ice tea. Within minutes he was dead. The official report reads like an account of a lynching. bit.ly/37DSJQb (art: Wm. McNichols).
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Among Elijah’s first words: “I’m an introvert. Pls respect the boundaries that I’m speaking.” Among his last words, while on the ground, with officers on top of him applying carotid holds: “I have no gun. I don’t do that stuff...I don’t do any fighting. Why are you attacking me?”
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“I don’t believe in guns. I don’t even kill flies. I don’t eat meat.I don’t judge people for anything...I respect all life. Forgive me. All I was trying to do was become better. I’ll do it...I’ll do it...I’ll do better to help all life...I will do anything I have to...
“Sacrifice my identity...I’ll do it...I’ll do it...You all are phenomenal, you are beautiful...Forgive me.” Tho he was unconscious on the ground EMS techs gave him a shot of ketamine, mistaking his 140lb weight for 190 lbs.
Forgive us, Elijah. Too good for this world. #BLM
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