{"id":2142,"date":"2020-06-27T06:43:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T06:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2020-06-27T06:43:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T06:43:47","slug":"23-year-old-elijah-mcclain-was-out-buying-iced-tea-when-he-was-stopped-by-police-harassed-then-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=2142","title":{"rendered":"23-year-old Elijah McClain was out buying iced tea when he was stopped by police harassed then killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elijah McClain\u2019s \u2018Greatest Crime Was Walking Home While Being Black\u2019 | Stephanie Ruhle | MSNBC\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zbmq1izB03g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The threat level was virtually non-existent to justify any degree of excessive force and especially not to the degree of death.\u00a0<\/span> For someone to state that &#8220;they don&#8217;t even kill flies&#8221; and express that they are an &#8220;introvert&#8221; in an effort to convey their state of mind and intent proves just how little regard these police officers had for Elijah McClain&#8217;s life. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">They even took their hatred a step further by telling him to not get his vomit on them (v<\/span><\/span>omit that they induced with their violence) and threatening to unleash vicious dogs to attack him.\u00a0<\/span> All the while, the reason for him even being approached was simply because he appeared suspicious and was &#8220;different&#8221;, in his own words.<\/p>\n<p>And for the paramedics to administer a sedative in double the dose necessary for a 140 lb man makes them equally culpable, which is a gross malpractice of medicine.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In the least, neither the police officers nor the EMT&#8217;s should have a job or be allowed to work in their fields again and receive a pay check from taxpayers &#8211; but we really need to charges levied against them for Elijah&#8217;s death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat level was virtually non-existent to justify any degree of excessive force and especially not to the degree of death.\u00a0 For someone to state that &#8220;they don&#8217;t even kill flies&#8221; and express that they are an &#8220;introvert&#8221; in an effort to convey their state of mind and intent proves just how little regard these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[359,107,7],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-talk-on-politics","tag-elijah-mcclain","tag-police-brutality","tag-racist-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}