5/21/2023 0 Comments An Old Man by Eric M. BlackKamala Harris, D-Calif., who called the killing “absolutely crushing.” “Learning about this case broke my heart,” wrote Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former Republican governor of California. Martin Luther King Jr., tweeted about McClain. And it has made Elijah McClain the latest symbol of what many Americans see as a law enforcement culture informed by racial animosities.Įarlier this week, Bernice King, daughter of Dr. The outrage over those killings has intensified outrage over killings past. That attention comes largely because 2020 has seen a number of Black men and women killed by police officers or vigilantes: Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd. Only now, nearly a year after his death, is the case of Elijah McClain finally receiving the national attention his family has been seeking. “Aurora, Colo., is trying to cover up its wrongdoing.” “Aurora, Colo., is corrupt,” says Mari Newman, a Denver attorney who is representing McClain’s family. It went unheeded, not only by the three officers who first responded to the 911 call but by the many others who arrived later, and who chatted casually as McClain struggled for his final breaths. It was a cry for help, an explanation of who he was. “I don’t even kill flies,” McClain said at one point as the officers continued to restrain him. Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist, was walking home from a gas station on Aug.
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