Elijah Jovan McClain was a 23year old Black American from Aurora, Colorado. He was a massage therapist who died a week after a violent encounter with the police force.
The event that led to his death began on the 24th of august, 2019 when an Aurora citizen made a call of alarm to the police department. The caller was said to have made a report about an unarmed person wearing a ski mask which they described as "sketchy". After receiving the call, three police officers, Nathan Woodyard, Jason Rosenblatt and Randy Roedema went down to the address in order to investigate the complaint.
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