Elijah McClain just was trying to walk home with his ice tea when 4 murdering cops killed him.
He should be alive, but cops don’t de-escalate situations, but they escalate them.
Then they routinely get away with murder and assault this is exactly what happened to McClain.
On Aug. 24, 2019, McClain was walking home from a local convenience carrying a bottle of iced tea.
McClain, who was anemic, often wore a ski mask when he felt cold, his family has said.
His waving arms caught the attention of a man named Juan who was driving down the same street and he called 911.
“He looks sketchy. He might be a good person or a bad person,” Juan told the operator.
From what little is available of the body cam video footage, officers didn’t waste much time confronting McClain. At least four officers showed up, getting out of their respective squad cars calling for the 23-year-old to stop walking.
When a few hands reached out to grab at him, McClain recoiled, saying, “I am an introvert. Please respect the boundaries that I am speaking.”
McClain is pinned down for several minutes in a carotid hold. He can be heard moaning, sobbing, repeating that “it hurts” and pleading with the officers to stop.
“I was just going home. I don’t have a gun. I don’t do that stuff. I don’t even kill flies. I don’t even eat meat.”
“I’m just different,” he whimpers.
Here is when the cover up happens.
They know what they are doing, but don’t want anyone to know.
This is how cops operate.
Minutes later, one officer says to another, “Move your camera, dude.”
That leads to more grunts and sounds of a scuffle.
“We have his arm,” one officers says. Another calls back, “I have his other arm.
Someone picks up a body camera and McClain can be seen lying on his side with both hands restrained behind his back, and one officer jamming his knee on the man’s torso.
“If you keep messing around, I’m going to bring my dog out here and he’s going to bite you,” says an officer standing over McClain.
McClain’s body goes limp and he passes out.
Eventually, one officer asks, “Are you OK?”
But he’s not asking McClain. He’s speaking to the officer on top of him.
“Yeah, I’m good,” the officer says shifting his weight.
When the paramedic came they shot him up with ketamine. He passed away while in the ambulance.
The DA refused to press charges of course and it would have gone unnoticed, but since George Floyd’s murder more of these cases have came to light.
Klay Thompson is asking for justice and the governor has decided to force them to reopen the case.
Flip the pages to see what Klay had to say and the governor.