#JusticeForElijahMcClain

The details of Elijah McClain’s untimely death haunt me. His story is one that guts me. All of the stories of Black bodies presumed threats and, as a result, destroyed at the hands of police are awful, but McClain’s hits different, personally.

This is what I worry about often when I look at the graduation photo of my 21-year-old cousin — I worry that the sweet, super-smart boy that he is will be deemed dangerous by some random stranger who then decides to call 911 and in turn put him in danger. I’m worried that the police, trained as it seems to see Black men/boys as threats when in…