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They cuffed a black man and then killed him. Back to 1947.
Activists have pointed to what they describe as the brazen cruelty on display in the video of Floyd’s arrest to call for more than just the officers’ firing.
Bystanders could be heard in the video pleading with police officers to help Floyd as the officer identified as Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck. Floyd, too, begged Chauvin and other officers at the scene, repeatedly saying “I can’t breathe.”
The officer remained on Floyd’s neck even as bystanders shouted that Floyd appeared to have gone unconscious. The video shows Floyd being carried away completely limp, and he died in a nearby hospital shortly after in what police described as a “medical incident.”
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Activists have pointed to what they describe as the brazen cruelty on display in the video of Floyd’s arrest to call for more than just the officers’ firing.
Bystanders could be heard in the video pleading with police officers to help Floyd as the officer identified as Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck. Floyd, too, begged Chauvin and other officers at the scene, repeatedly saying “I can’t breathe.”
The officer remained on Floyd’s neck even as bystanders shouted that Floyd appeared to have gone unconscious. The video shows Floyd being carried away completely limp, and he died in a nearby hospital shortly after in what police described as a “medical incident.”
Derek Chauvin, Minneapolis Cop Shown Kneeling on George Floyd’s Neck, Hires Philando Castile Shooter’s Lawyer
Officers went at protesters outside a precinct house as one of their own, Derek Chauvin, was ID’d as the white cop shown kneeling on a black man’s neck.
