Posted on 05/26/2020 8:13:00 AM PDT by USA Conservative
A video posted on social media this week shows a police officer keeping his knee planted on the neck of a black man who pleaded that he couldn’t breathe and subsequently died shortly afterward.
It happened Monday night, when cops were responding to a “forgery in progress.” Police arrived and saw the suspect sitting in a car. According to the Department, the man resisted arrest so he was placed in handcuffs, adding “he appeared to be suffering medical distress.”
The Police Dept. added, “At no time were weapons of any type used by anyone involved in this incident.”
What the P.D. did not address … is the video, and it’s incredibly disturbing.
The black man can be heard moaning and telling the officer that he’s having trouble breathing.
The officer doesn’t budge, as another officer passively watches.
It’s apparent the man is in distress, as a passerby screams, “That’s bulls***, bro. You’re stopping his breathing right there, bro. Get him off the ground, bro,” adding the officer was “enjoying it.”
The man becomes motionless, an ambulance shows up and the man is taken to a hospital where he died.
Video below: www.facebook.com/100005733452916/videos/1425398217661280/
The footage, which was shared by bystander Darnella Frazier,
She said on Facebook that “the police killed him, bro, right in front of everybody,” the Washington Post reported.
“He was crying, telling them like, ‘I can’t breathe,’ and everything. They killed this man,” Frazier wrote.
Both cops are despicable and need to ROT in prison.
“Any organization is as bad as the worst psycho they tolerate in their ranks.”
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He may have OD'ed for all we know.
There is, of course, the theatrical component to consider.
Wow, that was hard to watch........
The good news it that both the victim and officer were wearing their face masks. Now if one of them wasn’t, then I’m sure the crowd would have gotten involved. We’re all in this together. Except for the boot on the neck part that is.
The Left wants to get rid of policing all together, along with the rest of the system.
Being a police officer isn’t even in the top ten dangerous professions. It’s lower in risk than factory worker.
“It interesting how you find the most aggressive police forces in the most liberal cities.”
Not really, totalitarian governments all have aggressive police forces. Communist China, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany. Somebody has to inforce their view of utopia.
I looked at the photo. Unfortunately, I could not tell if the knee was on the front, back, or side of the neck. Also, there is no way of knowing how much pressure was applied.
There are so few of us willing to wait for the facts and not jump to conclusions. Thank you
“He died for a “forgery?”
He was executed in the street for an alleged forgery.
Fixed that for you.
They want a Federal Police Force, basically like The Gestapo.
Not anywhere in the top 20. Farming is more deadly than policing.
Like I said, the Left has pretty much discouraged the good people from wanting to become cops, so now what you have is what’s left.
Shame on the people on the scene.
While I agree the cops should be charged, there still remains the fact that he would be alive if he had not RESISTED ARREST and been COMMITTING A CRIME (allegedly)
It’s murder. And I can’t believe how many people on this site are defending the cop, or at least were doing so on an earlier posting of this article that I read. Disgusting.
https://youtu.be/OflGwyWcft8
By the way, just to be clear MOST police officers are good citizens. But there is a significant minority who are anything but civil. Also, it’s not a white cop vs Black person issue. The video above is white cop vs white person, and a person I know who is former MARSOC (and white) posted a video of a black police officer harassing his place of business. Thus it’s not a color issue but rather a power-over-citizens issue.
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