Four Minneapolis officers are fired, video shows one kneeling on neck of black man who later died

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Four Minneapolis officers are fired after video shows one kneeling on neck of black man who later died, mayor says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/26/minneapolis-police-death-custody-fbi/

By
Timothy Bella and
Brittany Shammas
May 26, 2020 at 3:17 p.m. CDT


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The incident began when two officers arrived at the 3700 block of Chicago Avenue South around 8 p.m. Monday, police said. Officers located the man, whom they believed to be under the influence of an intoxicant, inside his car. After he got out, police said, the man “physically resisted officers.”

“Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and realized that the suspect was suffering a medical distress,” a Minneapolis police spokesman said in a news briefing early Tuesday. “Officers called for an ambulance. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he died a short time later.”

Police said that no weapons were used at any time by the man or the officers during the encounter.

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“The police killed him, bro, right in front of everybody,” Frazier said on Facebook. “He was crying, telling them like, ‘I can’t breathe,’ and everything. They killed this man.”

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[Yonnie3]

1. This firing is unusually quick.

I am awaiting the criminal charges.

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3. Watching the video I got the feeling the cop with his knee was trying to hurt the "suspect".

There was no need for this. No weapons. He was well under control without the knee. There will be charges but cops get off too easily.

[LizBeth]

2. So, the black male victim was sitting in his car and someone called the cops on him. And he dies.