BRIGHTON, Colo. – As the demise of Elijah McClain changed into a rallying level at police reform rallies in Colorado and throughout the county in 2020, the younger guy’s final words changed into synonymous with the tragic case.
Prosecutors additionally performed them right through an ordeal for 2 officials charged in his demise that culminated Thursday when jurors convicted one officer of criminally negligent murder and third-degree attack and acquitted some other.
“I can’t breathe,” he mentioned as police pinned him to the floor on a summer season evening in 2019. “My name is Elijah McClain… “I’m just different! I’m just different. That’s all! That’s all I was doing!”
Here are excerpts from more than three hours of
A 3rd officer and paramedics thinking about the demise are watching for trial.
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THE BEGINNING OF THE ENCOUNTER
— Officer: Do me a choose. Stop proper there. Hey, prevent proper there. Stop. Stop.
— Elijah McClain: I’ve a proper (crosstalk).
— Officer: Stop. Stop. I’ve a proper to prevent you, since you’re being suspicious.
— Elijah McClain: Well, k.
— Officer: Turn round. Turn round.
— Elijah McClain: I see your (inaudible).
— Officer: Turn round. Stop. Stop tensing up, dude.
— Elijah McClain: Let cross of me.
— Officer: Stop tensing up, bro. Stop tensing up.
— Elijah McClain: Let cross of me.
— Officer: Stop tensing up.
— Elijah McClain: Let me cross.
— Officer: Stop tensing up.
— Elijah McClain: No, let cross of me.
— Elijah McClain: No. I’m an introvert!
— Officer: Stop tensing up.
— Elijah McClain: Please recognize the obstacles that I’m talking.
— Officer: Stop tensing up.
— Elijah McClain: Stop. Stop!
— Officer: Relax.
— Elijah McClain: I’m going house!
— Officer: Relax, or I’m going to have to alternate this example.
— Elijah McClain: Leave me on my own!
— Officer: Stop.
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WHEN OFFICERS TAKE MCCLAIN TO THE GROUND
— Elijah McClain: You guys began to arrest me and I used to be preventing my track to pay attention. Now let cross of me.
— Officer: (inaudible) Let’s recover from to grass there. Lay you down (inaudible).
— Elijah McClain: I intend to take my energy again as a result of I intend to be (inaudible) I am getting to be (inaudible).
— Officer: (crosstalk) He simply grabbed your gun, dude.
— Officer: (crosstalk) Stop, dude! (inaudible). Get us some extra gadgets. We’re preventing him.
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WHEN MCCLAIN IS PINNED DOWN
— Elijah McClain: I will’t breathe!
— Officer 1: Get him on again, he’s getting cuffs.
— Officer 2: (Inaudible) In a bar-hammer.
— Officer 1: Stop!
— Officer 2: Stop!
— Elijah McClain: I will’t breathe, please prevent!
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WHEN MCCLAIN PLEADS WITH OFFICERS
— Elijah McClain: My identify is Elijah McClain!
— Officer: We had to use carotid.
— Elijah McClain: That’s all I used to be doing, I used to be simply going house! (inaudible). I’m an introvert, and I’m other!
— Officer: I heard some noisily snoring.
— Elijah McClain: (Inaudible) I’m simply other! I’m simply other. That’s all! That’s all I used to be doing!
— Officer: It used to be if truth be told Rosenblatt’s. He reached to your gun, dude.
— Elijah McClain: I’m so sorry. I haven’t any gun. I don’t do that stuff. I don’t do any preventing. Why would you (inaudible) me? I don’t do (inaudible). I don’t even kill flies! I don’t consume meat. But I’m no longer a vegetarian. I don’t pass judgement on other people or anything else. I check out to are living in secret (crosstalk). And I recognize all lifestyles.
—Officer: When we confirmed him up. When we confirmed up, he used to be dressed in a ski masks.
— Elijah McClain: (crosstalk) Forgive me! All I used to be making an attempt to do used to be develop into higher.
— Officer: We began it as a result of he reached for Rosie’s gun.