MSNBC’s Geoff Bennett Tears Up on Air Reading Elijah McClain’s Last Words: If He’s Not Safe, ‘Who Is?’

NBC News correspondent Geoff Bennett teared up on air Wednesday reading the last words of Elijah McClain.

McClain was a 23-year-old Black man stopped by Colorado police in 2019 over a 911 call from someone saying he looked “sketchy.” Officers confronted him and put him in a chokehold, and minutes later paramedics showed up and injected him with ketamine. He was declared brain-dead at the hospital, and was taken off life support just days later.