Gibson also said that the woman had mental health issues and may not have been taking her medication. I am totally horrified,” her aunt, Nell Gibson, told a local CBS affiliate. “It was a woman down on the ground in handcuffs. The woman’s family said the video, recorded on Monday by a neighbour and first posted on the social media page of the crowd-sourced news organisation ATLUncensored, left them “speechless.” He suffered cardiac arrest, was later declared brain dead and taken off life support.Two Atlanta police were taken off the streets this week after video went viral which appears to show an officer kicking a handcuffed woman in the face as his partners look on impassively, Independent reported. Police placed him in a chokehold that cuts off blood to the brain, and paramedics administered 500 milligrams of a sedative to calm him down.
Police said they had a right to stop him because he was "being suspicious," and he begged them repeatedly to let go of him, according to body-camera video. 24, 2019, reported him as suspicious because he was wearing a ski mask and flailing his arms. Officers stopped McClain, a massage therapist, after a 911 call on Aug. The Aurora Police Association called the firings "a rush to judgment." The union for officers said on Facebook that the investigation took nine days, while a standard internal affairs case takes months. "For her, it was just devastating to see that people were mocking the murder of her son," Newman added.
Elijah's mother, Sheneen McClain, also saw them. "The fact that three on-duty, in-uniform police officers thought that it was appropriate to re-enact the murder, jokingly, shows that the department is rotten to the core," said Mari Newman, the McClain family's lawyer who saw the photos before they were publicly released. (Submitted by Aurora Police Department)Īn unspecified number of the officers were suspended during the investigation, and one resigned this week. This photo shows three Aurora police officers re-enacting the chokehold that killed McClain, at the scene of his 2019 encounter with police.
Aurora police launched an investigation last week after another officer reported the photos that were taken near where the 23-year-old was stopped - a site that's now a memorial. Word of the photos emerged soon afterward. Jared Polis last week ordered the state attorney general to reopen the case after prosecutors last year declined to charge the three white officers who confronted McClain. Facing increasing pressure, Democratic Gov. McClain's death got new attention following nationwide protests over police brutality and racial injustice. The officers may not have committed a crime, but the photographs are "a crime against humanity and decency," she said. "We are ashamed, we are sickened, and we are angry," Wilson said. Police released photos Friday showing three officers smiling as they re-enacted a chokehold that their colleagues used on Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after police stopped him as he walked down the street last summer in a Denver suburb.įollowing an internal investigation by the Aurora Police Department, interim police chief Vanessa Wilson fired three officers, one of whom received the photos by text and responded "haha." The officer who was seen re-enacting the chokehold resigned.
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