The cops who killed Elijah McClain Walk as activists face decades in prison for protesting

 Imagine for an instant that one or two of “bad apple” cops attacked, choked, and forcibly drugged an innocent pillar of the community as he walked home from the shop — killing him. Imagine that we are told these cops committed no crime after they attacked this innocent man and killed him. Then, imagine after cops got away with killing him, other cops went back to the scene to re-enact the killing, while taking pictures to mock his death. Imagine that individuals then become very upset and demand a stop to the current police brutality and above the law murderous mentality. And, while these people are within the streets to demand cops stop killing innocent people, imagine they're arrested for it and face insanely long prison sentences as a result — because the killer cops walk free.

There is no must imagine this, because it's exactly what happened in Aurora, Colorado.

Several protesters — who never harmed anyone, destroyed no property and advocated no violence — are staring down the likelihood of decades in prison for protesting the shortage of charges for the cops who killed Elijah McClain further because of the other cops who mocked his death.

Though many people are arrested for his or her role in protests, Joel Northam, 33, and Lillian House, 26, are seeing the acute end of those arrests.

“I’m facing as many as 48 years in prison,” said House, an organizer in Denver and one among the six activists arrested and charged in September of last year. in keeping with arrest documents, they were arrested in reference to crimes committed during June and July protests in Aurora – protests House and Northam contend were peaceful, 9 News reported.

“In this country, we’re alleged to have the proper to protest peacefully,” House said in late December, four months after she and Northam were arrested. “Yet now, we’re facing some very serious retaliation and should be watching decades in prison for fighting for justice in our community.”

They are being charged with kidnapping a whole local department because they protested at the station and demanded two more officers involved in Elijah McClain’s death be fired.

They caused no damage and never physically touched anyone.

“We’ve done nothing wrong. we've got committed no crimes, and that we don't seem to be the violent ones here,” Northam said.

Since there have been 18 cops inside the department at the time of the protest, Adams County district attorney’s office alleges those charged with kidnapping “attempted to imprison” 18 officers — an outright laughable claim — but a claim that threatens to place these folks away for what may well be the remainder of their lives.

“We completely reject the characterization of what we’ve been doing as violent or dangerous. Or in any way anything aside from a positive movement towards the betterment of our community,” said House.

House and Northam say these charges are an endeavor to create an example out of them to scare others into silence.

“What really is in hand here,” House said, “is these forces don't want this protest movement to continue.”

“This isn't just an attack on us as organizers and also the organization,” Northam said. “This is an attack on a mass movement of thousands of individuals, of families, of community members.”

“Of course we value our freedom, and that we don’t want to spend decades in prison. But really this is often an attack on the elemental rights which permit someone to protest, somebody to talk out,” House said. It’s visiting be a really long and expensive battle previous us, but that's not visiting be enough to form us tuck our tail between our legs and provides up our rights to fight for our community.”

The PBWW website reported, last year, Elijah McClain was killed by police after he was put in an exceeding chokehold and given the sedative ketamine. The incident began when someone within the neighborhood called the police because McClain was walking down the road with groceries while wearing a mask. McClain reportedly always wore the mask because he was anemic, and infrequently got cold, and he was an introvert.

At the time of his death, he had never gotten most as a ticket in his life.

In his previous couple of words on this planet, McClain may well be heard saying, “I’m an introvert. I’m just different. That’s all. I’m so sorry. I've got no gun. I don’t do this stuff. I don’t do any fighting. Why are you attacking me? I don’t even kill flies! I don’t eat meat! But I don’t judge people, I don’t judge those who do eat meat. Forgive me … I’m so sorry.”

He was innocent, successful, and a light-weight during this often dark world and police killed him for being different. Then, after they killed him, they went back to the scene of the crime and reenacted it for fun. this can be not some case of a nasty apple. this can be systemic and sadistic, and it has to change. Here’s how we will try this, right now.

If you'd prefer to sign a petition to push for the costs to be dropped against these protesters, you'll do so here.

Elijah McClain was brutally tortured & murdered by police in August 2019

The only people charged over his killing are community activists who organized mass peaceful demonstrations

They are now facing up to 60 yrs in prison for daring to need justice

RELEASE DATE JAN 16 pic.twitter.com/SYZX527aVN

— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) January 13, 2021