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Elijah McClain was a kind and gentle 23 year old who worked as a massage therapist in Aurora, CO. On his lunch breaks from work, Elijah would go to the animal shelters and play violin for the animals because he thought that they were lonely in their cages and thought that the music would calm them. He was quirky, a pacifist, a vegetarian, enjoyed running, and known to put a smile on everyones’ face.

In August 2019, Elijah went to the gas station to buy some iced tea for himself and his cousins. Because he suffered from anemia, a condition in which you lack enough healthy red blood cells to carry enough oxygen to your body’s tissues, he would often wear a ski/ runner mask over his face to stay warm. On his way home, the Aurora Police department were called to reports of a “suspicious man”, likely due to Elijah wearing his mask for warmth and dancing to the music in his headphones. All Elijah was doing was WALKING HOME.

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Elijah was apprehended by a group of three cops, despite committing NO crime and being unarmed. A struggle occurred, and he was held in a very dangerous carotid hold around his neck while he cried for help, cried out that he couldn’t breathe, cried out that he was nonviolent and couldn’t even kill a fly, and was repeatedly throwing up. Elijah weighed a mere 140 pounds. You can hear on the audio footage, an officer instructing another to move their body camera out of view. Another threatened to “call in a dog to bite him, if he (Elijah) moved again”. While 3 Aurora Police Dept officers violently restrained him they called Aurora Fire Dept, who injected him with ketamine even tho he was already cuffed, a drug used to tranquilize horses or in surgeries while properly supervised by anesthesiologist. He went into cardiac arrest , slipped into a coma, and his family was advised to take him off life support 6 days later. As a result of this encounter, Elijah passed away at the age of 23.

The officers have STILL NOT been charged in taking Elijah’s life. Elijah’s voice has been taken from him, so it is up to US to be his voice. We must DEMAND JUSTICE for Elijah. Please read last photo for ways to help Elijah!

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bobwjr 10 June 21
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Noooo! Not again!!

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Terrorizing citizens is not the way to police. This is a nightmare come true. Grabbed off the street, injected, beaten and killed for what crime? Who was the victim of this crime?

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As a watcher of the American scene, it saddens me that such petitions rarely if ever get anywhere. Action is taken by the decision makers only when there is insurrection. Those decision makers need to be put in fear of their own lives before they become willing to act.

The lack of police accountability and the effect of capitalism has pushed the average person to social unrest. This has been long coming for both. And they did it. Went too far.

If he'd been white and had rich parents there would have been action.

However the only posthumous action I want to see is not huge settlements paid by tax-payers and treated as "cost of living" but systemic change that prevents police for acting like this. It should be that even if they were so inclined to brutalize a detainee they wouldn't dare because they would know their colleagues would report it, it would be investigated, they would be fired, and they would be charged.

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