For ELIJAH MCCLAIN on his 25th Birthday — Ten Plays of 25 words

Evelyn Jean Pine
Fourth Wave
Published in
3 min readFeb 23, 2021

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A colorful mural of Elijah McClain by #SprayHisName with the word RESPECT and flowers.
Mural by #SPRAYTHEIRNAME (Detour & Hiero Veiga) Photo Credit: Denver News

Elijah McClain — violinist, bodyworker, animal lover, community volunteer — would have been 25-years old on February 25, 2021. McClain is the 23-year-old Black man who died after being attacked by Aurora, CO police officers who put him in a chokehold. Although he was on the ground, restrained, when EMT’s arrived, they injected him with ketamine, a strong tranquilizer. McClain died

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