RiNo Epic Brewing’s Elijah McClain Mural Repainted As Part Of Regular Art Rotation

From CBS Denver:

By Ben Warwick

August 31, 2020

DENVER (CBS4) – The mural of Elijah McClain, recently repainted on a wall outside Epic Brewing, was repainted as a part of the regular rotation of street art. The new art went up in recent weeks.

McClain is the 23-year-old black man who died after Aurora police officers put him in a chokehold. Paramedics injected McClain with a sedative a year ago, leading to his death several days after the confrontation.

Artists, including Thomas “Detour” Evans had painted a mural of him, on a wall outside Epic Brewing in RiNo. A new mural, this time of Jason Abernethy, who led the charge to make Denver a more bike-friendly city, replaced that of McClain.

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