‘I can’t breathe’: African American dies after being arrested in the US

Minneapolis, United States.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the authorities of Minnesota They launched an investigation Tuesday after a black man died after being arrested and subdued by a white cop from Minneapolis to the one who said can not breath, in an incident recorded on video and distributed by social networks.

The incident It happened on Monday night, when a police patrol went to a site in the city where fraud had been reported. According to the Police Department of Minneapolis, the agents were informed that the individual, a black man, was inside a vehicle and it seemed drugged.

The police found the man sitting inside his vehicle and when he was ordered to leave, the individual resisted arrest, according to the official version, which adds that when the agents noticed that the subject presented “medical difficulties” They called an ambulance that took him to the Hennepin County Health Center, to which the city belongs.

The man died shortly after arriving at that clinic.

In the video, taken by pedestrians who ran into the scene, the man is seen face down on the pavement and an agent is on him. squeezing his neck with one knee for several minutes, unchanged his stance and even though you hear the man who complains several times that can’t breathe, until it seems lose consciousness.

“For five minutes we see how a white agent pinched his knee to the neck of a black man. Five minutes, “Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said with a shake today at a news conference with Police Chief Medaria Arradondo.

“When you hear someone cry out for Help, he is supposed to be rescued, “he added.” This agent failed at human sense more basic. What happened last night was simply horrible”.

In the video you can hear the man complaining: “My neck hurts. Everything hurts … water or something, please. Please please. I can’t breathe agent I can’t breathe “.

The voice of a woman is also heard, indicating that the man is bleeding from the nose.

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Another passerby, amid insults, yells at the agent: “That’s bullshit, brother. you prevent breathing, brother. Pick it up off the ground. You are behaving like hell. “

“You are enjoying it,” adds the same individual. “By now you could have put him in the car. He’s not resisting, nothing. You’re enjoying it. Your body language says so … You know it’s all a sham now.”

The passerby, according to the recording, He urges the agents to take the pulse of the individual and at one point he assures: “Now he no longer responds, he does not move.” EFE

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