George Floyd is not alone. 'I can't breathe' uttered by dozens in fatal police holds across U.S.

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/06/13/george-floyd-not-alone-dozens-said-cant-breathe-police-holds/3137373001/

Police restraint tactics do more than stop people, they put them at risk of dying.

Katie Wedell, Cara Kelly, Camille McMannus and Christine Fernando, USA TODAY

Updated 9 minutes ago

In Columbus, Georgia, a 300-pound police officer sat on Hector Arreola’s back while another held a knee to his neck and kept him face down outside his neighbor’s house for six minutes until he stopped moving and later died.

In Phoenix, four police officers placed the weight of their bodies on Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin’s head, neck, back and limbs as he lay face-down and handcuffed before going into cardiac arrest and dying.

Three officers in Aurora, Colorado, tackled Elijah McClain as he walked home with groceries, using a stranglehold around his neck and handcuffing him as he pleaded and vomited. He was removed from life support days later.

In all three cases, the unarmed men uttered the same phrase as police wrestled them into custody.

“I can’t breathe.”

Their warnings were ignored.

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[dalton99a]

1. Great article.

[Hav]

4. This should be a flyer in every police department

and part of the training.
Given the recent tantrums, one has to hope though that this isn't something that offends them.

[Hav]

2. Article isn't shown for me for that link but maybe it's my mobile device

It sounds like murder in all those quoted cases. I wonder how many internal investigations found no signs of any wrongdoing.
That's what happens when there are no consequences for those murderers. The murders don't stop by telling murderers they did nothing wrong.

[Solomon]

5. Almost all did. And further, to cover up the murders the autopsies referred to other factors or

"substances" as though the asphyxiation was not the true cause of death.

Despicable!

[yardwork]

3. This makes me sick. This has to stop.