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US youth facility in Michigan: 16-year-old black man dies after being restrained – panorama – society

Two dozen teenagers watch this scene during lunch: 16-year-old Cornelius Fredericks throws a sandwich, and then guards knock him down. In the meantime, eight men are sitting on it – for more than ten minutes. When they let go of him and try to raise him up, the boy falls back to the ground. A woman starts a heart massage – to no avail. Fredricks dies in the hospital two days later.

Two videos of the events of April 29, 2020 in a youth facility in the US state of Michigan are circulating on the Internet, published by the lawyer Geoffrey Fieger, who represents the boy’s estate. According to Fieger, Fredericks, a black boy, shouted that he couldn’t breathe. According to an initial autopsy, the 16-year-old died of suffocation.

According to the lawyer, air pressure testing was a common form of discipline in the facility where Fredericks had lived in Kalamazoo with around 125 other young people. The boy had been living there since his mother died. The Lakeside Academy is committed to offering special programs for young people with unusual behavior.

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“The video is terrible, but vivid,” said Fieger during a virtual press conference, where he played 13 minutes of the footage. “However, parts of the video appear to have been deleted.” He had not yet been able to determine whether the Lakeside Academy was responsible for the missing footage.

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Two of the facility’s employees were released and charged with negligent homicide and child abuse. Even a nurse has to answer in court. Fieger demands that other parties be charged. The video clearly shows that there were more than three perpetrators.

Fredricks’ name already appeared in connection with protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd died last month when a police officer knelt on his neck. He had repeatedly warned not to breathe.

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