Mississippi cop on leave after video shows his hands around man’s neck

NY Post ^ | May 28, 2020 | Joshua Rhett Miller

[Arones]

A Mississippi cop held a young man by the neck as onlookers screamed, “He can’t breathe!,” troubling video shows.

The 2-minute clip posted to Facebook Friday shows a uniformed Jackson police officer with both hands wrapped around the man’s neck.

“What did I tell you to do?” the officer screams at the man, video shows. “Make me, make me, make me … I said make me, boy.”

The officer, identified by the Jackson Free Press as Myron Smith, then tells a woman who tries to intervene to take her hands off him as she says the man is having trouble breathing.

“He’s trying to breathe!” she says. “He’s telling you he can’t breathe.”

Smith then tells the woman he isn’t choking the young man as he holds him against a black Toyota Camry with Mississippi plates, video shows.

[redinIllinois]

Thanks for a real life account of how the world works!!

[supremedoctrine]

You’re right, and great telegraphic writing.