Elijah McClain Police Custody Death to be Reexamined

| June 26, 2020

Elijah McClain, 23, died in August 2019 in the aftermath of being in police custody.  Over 2 million people signed a petition for Colorado to reopen this case and to investigate it. Their governor, Jared Polis, agreed and took action. Elijah McClain is an African-American.

From CNN:

On August 24, 2019, McClain was stopped by three White officers as he walked home from a convenience store, after a 911 caller described a “suspicious person,” according to a police overview of the incident. McClain resisted officer contact, the report says, and a struggle ensued. On one of the officers’ body cameras, McClain is heard saying, “I’m an introvert, please respect the boundaries that I am speaking.”

Body cam video shows McClain telling officers that he was trying to stop his music to listen to them, then they begin to arrest him. One officer is heard telling another, “He just grabbed your gun, dude.”

The video shows an officer wrestle McClain to the ground.

At one point during the struggle, an officer is heard telling McClain, “If you keep messing around, I’m going to bring my dog out and he’s going to dog bite you.”

An officer placed McClain in a carotid hold, or chokehold, and he briefly lost consciousness, according to an overview of the incident provided by police. They released the hold, the report says, and he began struggling again. When paramedics arrived at the scene they administered ketamine to sedate McClain, the report said. According to a letter from the district attorney, McClain suffered a heart attack while in the ambulance, and he was declared brain dead three days later.

CNN has more on the article here.

Video of the event:

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Anonymous

Leftists, of course, argue that Socialist police states never have this because Socialism is all about love and equality– never happened in East Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, Venezuela, etc., you know.

Slow Joe

Have you ever seen a video of police brutality in a socialist country?

There you go. Proof that socialism is bettah fo teh piple.

Slow Joe

*pipple.

I forgot a P.

Skippy

Well from someone who stayed for a little bit
In what was known as West Berlin
The left is full of shit the stasii was nasty as hell

Slow Joe

Wake me up when there is case in which the cops killed someone that DIDN’T resist arrest.

That would be worrisome.

timactual

The video from the officer on the right is better but I couldnt find it.

timactual

Daniel Shaver i, of course, dead. The loudmouth officer retired and moved to the Philippines. The trigger puller is “medically” retired (PTSD from the killing).

There are others.

Comm Center Rat

But honestly it ain’t just black
It’s yellow, it’s brown, it’s red
It’s anyone who ain’t got cash
Poor whites that they call trash

They fuck whoever can’t fight back
But now we gotta change all that
The people have had enough
Right now, it’s them against us
This shit is ugly to the core
When it comes to the poor
No lives matter

NO LIVES MATTER by Body Count (2017)

Latest Feel Good Story: Melissa Rolfe, the stepmother of former Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe who killed Rayshard Brooks was fired from her human resources job by Equity Prime Mortgage LLC. As long as police have Qualified Immunity and are not required to carry liability insurance, family members will bear the economic consequences of their LEO’s criminal conduct especially in “at will employment” states like Georgia. NO LIVES MATTER!

5th/77th FA

You can rest assured that every single black “death by cop” will be investigated and re-investigated.

Wonder when they gonna investigate some of murders of cops by blacks? Or any other color/race?

Saw a blurb one time. There were 169 some odd thousand interactions between police and citizens everyday that ended with no one being killed.

Anonymous

There’s this one from 2017… why didn’t the media make a big deal out it?

Slow Joe

Reason 10,035 why you should NEVER trust the cops.

I am sure we all remember this case, the three Soldiers from Fort Stewart that served 25 years in prison.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/georgia-soldiers-prison-compensation-feature

just lurkin

Even if you stop and comply, you might still get kicked in the back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttMV19RPHAM
Police reform is a serious issue but, as usual, the idiot left takes what ought to be a serious concern for all citizens and tries to turn it up to eleven so that they can use the cause to attack every aspect of Western Civilization.

Slow Joe

I can’t open that video.

Is that the dude that ran away from the polizie and then stopped?

just lurkin

I don’t know if he ran before or not, at the point that the video starts he is standing there with his hands on his head and the cop runs up and hits him with a flying kick squarely in his back. From what has been reported he was mistaken for someone who was wanted and the cops were after him for that, so he was probably confused about why he was being stopped (if he even knew they were after him), none of which justifies the kick in the back.

Mason

A video that starts 1/2 way or 3/4 of the way through an incident shouldn’t be used to judge the totality of the circumstances.

just lurkin

That’s when the sister starts recording, but we can see the man standing there with his hands on his head, compliant, when a cop runs up and kicks him in the back. Sorry, if that is policy anywhere in America then it fits perfectly with the theme of police reform and, if it isn’t, which is what I suspect, then that is a very bad cop (which frankly I think he is anyway because no person in a position of authority should think it is justifiable to go up and kick a citizen who is just standing there in the back).

Mason

CNN (and the rest of the MSM) seem confused on what a choke is. A carotid hold is, by definition, NOT a chokehold.

Outside of a deadly force incident, chokeholds have never been a thing in police work. Carotid holds have, but those, while appearing superficially similar, are not constricting the airway.

gitarcarver

COP: “I have the right to stop you. You’re being suspicious.”

There was no crime reported in the area. McClain was headed back to his house which was a few houses away from getting his brother an iced tea at a convenience store.

“Suspicion” is not a crime.

That makes this stop consensual which means that McClain had the right to talk to the police if he chose, not talk to the police, or talk and then walk away at any time if he was talking to the police.

The officers appear not to have liked the idea that McClain was slow to talk to them or did not want to talk to them, so they decided to arrest him for nothing.

Some courts have ruled that you have the right to resist and illegal arrest by the police, and I am not sure that is the case in CO.

Still, the cops had no reason to arrest McClain. Someone is going to have to cite a law that says walking down the street after making a legal purchase at a local store while waving ones arms is a crime.

This was a consensual stop that went bad because the McClain didn’t do what the cops demanded of him in violation of his rights.

Was stop due to race? Only the originally 911 caller can say that. I would suspect that the police would have reacted the same way to anyone who refused a consensual stop regardless of their race.

Bubblehead Ray

You fight a bad stop in the courts, not the street. You can verbalize your objection, but physical resistance is just going to end badly for you. YMMV 🤷🏼‍♂️

gitarcarver

Bubblehead Ray,

Elijah McClain is not available to fight the bad stop in a court of law.

Comm Center Rat

You’re spot on gitarcarver. LEOs usually know who they’re fucking with before they start fucking with them. They fuck whoever can’t AFFORD to fight back.

How often do you hear of a young, white accountant walking home with iced tea being stopped because he “looks suspicious.” The cop knows “hipster” likely has access to money and lawyers and he’ll sue their ass. The juice ain’t worth the squeeze in the LEO’s risk calculation.

8:46

timactual

I have noticed a number of incidents where police respond to calls about a “suspicious person” and the situation escalates to the point where the “suspicious person” winds up either dead or charged with “resisting”. Somehow the “suspicions” are not justifies and just disappear. Perhaps if the police would consider the calls just as suspicious as they do the folks the caller calls “suspicious” there would be fewer problems.