The Aurora thugs who jumped, choked, and drugged Elijah McClain, resulting in his death, have been arrested and booked.
Three officers, and two paramedics, were booked and released on bond late Wednesday, according to The Denver Post.
The gang of five was indicted by a grand jury and charged with manslaughter; criminally negligent homicide; and second-degree assault, among other counts.
Only after sustained community, statewide and national pressure and protests, a Colorado state grand jury was convened.
Now, after two years of blaming the victim, stall tactics, and non-action, a state grand jury came to different conclusions about the cause of Elijah’s death than earlier investigations.
The grand jury indicted Aurora police officers Randy Roedema, Nathan Woodyard and Jason Rosenblatt (no longer an officer) and paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec on 32 counts, including, the indictment outlines, manslaugther; criminally negligent homicide; assault in the second degree; crime of violence and various other assault and crime of violence charges against the officers and paramedics.
The indictment quotes Roedema as saying to investigators that his department tends to “take control of an individual, whether that be, you know, a[n] escort position, a twist lock, whatever it may be, we tend to control it before it needs to be controlled.”
Read the full official indictment in PDF.
“We’re here today because Elijah McClain is not here, and he should be,” Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said at a news conference announcing the charges. “He was a son, a nephew, a brother, and a friend.”
The indictment comes just over two years after McClain, 23, died after being violently attacked, assaulted, and murdered.
Editor’s opinion: What is even more disturbing of all is the restraint and injection of the animal sedative ketamine by paramedics. What is wrong with the minds and hearts of people who swore to uphold the Constitution and to protect property and life?
These thugs didn’t care about Elijah; he was a target for them and it didn’t matter to them whether he did nothing wrong or not – they were intent on violating his rights, his mind, his body and shockingly to sedate him like a wild dog, leading to his murder. Walking home from the store; jumped by bully racist police officers (because a bag he was caring from the store looked “suspicious”.
NOTE: Watch out folks – LAW enforcement of all kinds do it every day. So, now, instead of calling it profiling, they call it ‘suspicious behavior’ so that later a cop can say he/she was “suspicious”; acting ‘suspicious’; walking ‘suspicious’; looking ‘suspicious’ as a way to violate people’s rights. If this happens to you and cops mention suspicious you then say a person’s perception of suspision is not probable cause and then invoke your 5th Amendment right to remain silent. As much as you may want to talk, don’t and make sure to film any encounters and ask if their bodycams are activated. Remain silent, film everything and call a lawyer.
That’s just a huge open door allowing bad cops and other law enforcement officials to fuck with people. Now profiling has evolved to ‘suspicion’. They cannot stand that there are so many video cameras now everywhere.
In the days before cameras everywhere, cops really did whatever they wanted to. Even the cops that didn’t want to ‘go along’ had, and have, no choice but to defend the thin blue line at all costs.
In fact, another example of this deliberate lying by police officers is outlined in the indictment. When Roedema and Rosenblatt grabbed Elijah, Roedema later claimed that Elijah went for Rosenblatt’s gun even though Rosenblatt claimed he did not feel or see any contact with his “service weapon.”
Elijah should still be learning, teaching, sharing, and making music. Who knows what else he could have done and all of the people, and animals (which he loved), he could have touched with his light.
But dark, evil forces took all of that from him in just minutes: Elijah was taken from his walk home by these evil forces. Grabbed; forced to the ground, assaulted; choked three times and injected with a powerful animal tranquilizer. Elijah suffocated and died.
His mother waited for him at home. She of course had no idea that her son was attacked, drugged and murdered for no reason at all by a gang of violent thugs – the same people who swore to protect and serve people just like Elijah.
