SNL's Bowen Yang reveals he was a high school improv group with one of the cops in the Elijah McClain death

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McClain was a 23-year-old Black man who died last summer after Aurora, Colorado police officers put him in a chokehold even though he hadn't committed a crime. The killing of George Floyd sparked enough outrage that Colorado's governor last month ordered a special prosecutor to investigate the incident. Yang, who grew up in Aurora, said on Rainn Wilson's Hey There, Human Instagram show he actually knew one of the officers who had killed McClain. “One of the police officers was someone I went to high school with and not only was it someone I went to high school with, he was in the drama club and on the improv team that I was also on at the same time with him,” said Yang. “That was the extra chilling layer on top of the whole thing,” Yang added. “I realize how corny it is to bring up high school and improv but that only serves to highlight the fact that the people who are enacting this kind of violence and are killing black people are people who are in our police system, people we know, people that we grew up with, people we went to school with and work with.”