2y ago

Elijah McClain told Colorado cops "I can't breathe" 7 times as they killed him, prosecutor says

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Elijah McClain said 'I can't breathe' 7 times as he was lying handcuffed on the ground, prosecutor says

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2y ago

Elijah McClain said 'I can't breathe' 7 times as he was lying handcuffed on the ground, prosecutor says

www.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/elijah-mcclain-said-cant-breathe-7-lay-handcuffed-prosecutor-says-rcna108006

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Rosenblatt was fired in 2020 after texting “ha ha” in response to a picture sent to him by other officers, one of whom appeared to be administering a chokehold near a memorial for McClain.
Can't reform this
- Certainly not on the taxpayer dime.
  
  We can and should, but through the prison system. I don't see why we can't help people become better citizens instead of better criminals if we're locking them up and paying for it anyway.
McClain was unarmed when he was stopped Aug. 24, 2019, by officers responding to a report of a suspicious person wearing a ski mask and waving his arms. He was carrying a plastic bag with three cans of iced tea in his left hand and his phone in his right hand. He was listening to music on headphones and didn’t initially respond when officers called to him.
Another case of being killed for being black.
Aurora shooter went to the wrong building...
"If YoU cAn TaLk YoU cAn BrEaThE" - pigs and bootlickers
- Counterpoint: if he could breathe he wouldn't have suffocated to death.
  
  "ThAtS oNlY HaPpEnEd LiKe OnCe AnD hE wAs PrObAbLy LyInG aNyWaY" - pigs and bootlickers
- And my sister after I fell down the stairs
This one has been breaking my heart since it happened. Don't read the transcript or listen to the audio unless you want to be sad all day.
If there's no conviction here, I will lose any shred of faith that I might still have in our justice system.
Not a comment on this case, but I saw a couple episodes of Cops recently and it seemed standard for people they were arresting to resist and immediately shout they can't breathe, so there's a chance cops have become a bit numb to it. Not saying the policing methods are correct, just a thought that 'the boy who cried wolf' might be aligning.
- Maybe all of the people yelling I can't breathe really can't breathe?
- Cops TV show is the original Copaganda.
  The show literally lets the police they ride with have final say on the editing, so there is never anything that makes cops look bad, or makes their baseless assumptions look anything but correct.
  Even if the person is actually innocent, which, IIRC, has lead to at least one lawsuit against the TV show for portraying them in a far worse way than the situation was in reality and making them look guilty to boot, when they were in fact innocent, all to make the cops look good and justified.
- Perhaps restraint methods that have no possibility of asphyxiating the detainee should be used, as most departmental policy requires.
  
  Especially considering it's really only the US where this seems to happen an awful lot. I don't hear about deaths in the process of arrest in, say, the UK or Germany or Japan with nearly the same regularity that we do with almost EVERY SINGLE PD here in the US.
- just a thought that 'the boy who cried wolf' might be aligning.
  In that tale, the one that gets the comeuppance is the one who cried wolf.
  Here, it was just some innocent kid.
  
  Yes, but the users you replied too, clearly thinks the innocent one who was killed here, IS the boy who cried wolf.. that's really what they are implying by referencing the cops episodes (which is strange cause I too watched cops growing up, as many of us did, and this was not a common thing said by anyone on the show.. not even on live PD... ). No, that user is just trying to paint an evil picture that this innocent person was making up their claims of they couldn't breath and therefore deserved it...

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