Denver faces angry violinists over death in police custody
mainA number of violinists are flying into Denver, Colorado, this weekend to protest the death of a friend in police custody 10 months ago. The police officers involved have been reassigned but not charged.
Elijah McClain, 23, died after being put into a chokehold for alleged suspicious behaviour.
He was a trained massage therapist and violinist.
The case may now be reopened.
BBC report here.
I heard about this young man. In the photo, it looks like he’s playing for cats in a shelter. How kind and sensitive he was. The world is a poorer place without him.
How anyone could downvote this comment is beyond me. RIP Elijah.
Well, the police had better be careful. Violinists can be very dangerous. This one, for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOPlEXpXtSA&t=72s
Not very funny or appropriate.
The violinist looks vaguely familiar. I wonder if they were trying to ‘parody’ someone?
Other people’s deaths are hilarious, aren’t they? Especially if you don’t know them.
The sheer number of instances of such police brutality coming to light over the past several weeks is stomach-turning. In this case, Mr McClain was walking home with a grocery store shopping bag when he was stopped by police and accused of “looking suspicious.” Nothing more, and that led to his death a quarter hour later.
Someone CALLED the police on him and reported McClain was “acting odd” and wearing a ski mask as he walked home. What are police supposed to do, ignore complaints? I used to have to walk home at night when I was a teenager and I got stopped and questioned by police all the time. It has even happened to me in the past few years when someone made a peeping tom complaint. I didn’t get roughed up because I cooperated with the police.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/29/wokeness-the-return-of-medieval-madness/
Typical racist Rethuglican justifying killing someone for merely being black.