Why Hasn’t No One Looked At the Police Before?
Why improper killings by wrongful police conduct never really made an appearance before in time. Or.. seemed not such a big deal due to the fact they are police.
This follows the petition signed by two million people regarding demand that a private investigation be looked back into on the unlawful death of Elijah McClain in August of 2019. When the young man was stopped on the side of the road in Aurora, Colorado right outside of Denver by three police officers when Elijah was walking back home from the store. He was claimed of being stopped due to a call about a man acting “suspicious” in a black ski mask. “I am an introvert please respect my boundaries” were one of the last sentences that were said by the innocent black man carrying groceries from the local store. According to Elijah’s family, the 23-year-old had made a quick trip to the convenience store to pick up an iced tea for his brother. His sister later told the local Denver7 (ABC affiliate), that her brother was wearing an open-face ski mask because he “had anemia and would sometimes get cold.” Colorado’s state governor is redirecting that Elijah’s death be reexamined upon the altercation with the three officers that stopped him on that fateful night in August.
More light was shed on this case with information regarding how they sedated Elijah while he was in police custody. A police choke hold was administarted as well as sedation to Elijah which was extremely unproper and out of line for a random stop by police that simply took their “line of duty” too far. Ketamine was used by first responders to sedate him while he was in custody, which was followed by him going into a heart attack that led him to go brain dead and pass three days later.
The three officers involved in Elijah’s detainment, were subsequently cleared of wrongdoing. More so on the basis of their body-camera footage and an allegedly inconclusive autopsy on Elijah as well.
The McClain family’s attorney Mari Newman speaks upon the behalf of Elijahs case stating to CNN that “it shouldn't have to take millions of people to sign a petition and international media attention for elected officials to do their job.” Surely expressing that elected officials are not acting upon their duties as the chair they accompany in. The other police officers involved with stopping McClain did not act nor speak upon what they were seeing as the unlawful restrain of Elijah was taking place. “If you see something say something” needs to apply to police as well. The problem is that, it’s rarely ever applied.
Let the crack in the blue wall of silence be cracked down even further. Let more police officers consciousness’s be shown and speak up for what was done wrong. Where no other police officer spoke up after witnessing wrong doing by another. When will there be a line drawn? Unreasonable inhumane actions of violence in the hands of certain privileged people come with the unforsaken consequences.
