Video shows Minneapolis cop with knee on neck of motionless, moaning man who later died

[cyndensco]

Source: CBS News

A video taken by an onlooker Monday evening shows a Minneapolis police officer keeping his knee on the neck of a motionless, moaning man at the foot of a squad car. The man later died.


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The video, captured by Darnella Frazier, begins with the man, who is black, groaning and repeatedly saying "I can't breathe" to the officer who has his knee on the man's neck. The officer is white.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-shows-minneapolis-cop-with-knee-on-neck-of-motionless-moaning-man-he-later-died/

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Another Eric Garner case. FTP.

[demmiblue]

1. F.B.I. to Investigate Arrest of Black Man Who Died After Being Pinned by Officer

The F.B.I. and the Minneapolis Police Department are investigating the arrest of a black man who died after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by an officer’s knee, in an episode filmed by a bystander and denounced by the mayor on Tuesday.

The arrest took place on Monday evening, the police said in a statement, after officers responded to a call about a man suspected of forgery. The police said the man, believed to be in his 40s, was found sitting on top of a blue car and “appeared to be under the influence.”

“He was ordered to step from his car,” the department’s statement said. “After he got out, he physically resisted officers. Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress.”

The statement said that officers called for an ambulance and that the man was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, “where he died a short time later.”

...

The bystander video that circulated widely on social media Monday night shows a white Minneapolis police officer pressing his knee into a black man’s neck during an arrest, as the man repeatedly says “I can’t breathe” and “please I can’t breathe.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/minneapolis-police-man-died.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

[aggiesal]

23. It would be interesting to see the contents of the body camera on police ...

prior to being pinned on the ground.
The police department have already stated that the officers' body cams were operational,
so it will be hard to backpedal if they later claim otherwise.

Do you think the police will release the video images from the officers' body cam?

[womanofthehills]

35. There is a cam from one of the buildings- he was not resisting arrest

He was standing in handcuffs and being walked with a cop on each side of him.

[aggiesal]

36. I haven't seen that video ...

Can you supply a link?

What prompted the take down if he was already in cuffs?

[csziggy]

37. Video at Washing Post link

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/26/minneapolis-police-man-died-video/

The part where they take Floyd out of his car begins about 3 minutes in. He appears to have fallen and they drag him up and take him to the side of a building.

It does not show the actual take down, just the events leading up to it. It looks as though Floyd was having trouble walking with his hands behind his back and held awkwardly by the much shorter police officer.

[JudyM]

2. Absolute depravity. Both of those cops need to be in jail for 20+ years.

The partner’s depraved indifference is despicable. He kept the onlookers from trying to intervene.
Neither of them gave a damn and this suggests it’s not the first time they’ve pulled something like this.

How traumatic for that man’s family and the onlookers. This is exhibit 1 for generating culture/race/civil war. I’d be willing to bet a good amount that that’s a trumper, feeling like it’s his right to crush another human.

[pazzyanne]

3. No words!

[BlueIdaho]

4. WTF part of "I can't breathe"

Do these pigs not understand?

[Stuart G]

5. I wonder where the cop got the idea that he could get away with that?

That this was a correct way to restrain someone?

I don't think it just dawned on him at that moment to put his knee on that man's throat...How could anyone come up with an idea like that to restrain someone? Think about that for a moment. Who taught him to do something like that? Or was it really his own idea? That is an important question in my opinion.

[barbtries]

30. what made him think he could get away with it?

Tamir Rice
Eric Garner
Keith Childress
Bettie Jones
Michael Brown
Cornelius Brown
Sandra Bland
Lamar Anthony Smith
Philando Castile

the list goes on.

[Stuart G]

6. This picture is all over the world. In many newspapers & media.

What a sad reflection of U.S. police. Could this happen in Great Britain or France?

[The King of Prussia]

17. In a word

Yes. But nowhere near as often.

[Lonestarblue]

7. People I've met in other countries often ask if it's safe to live here.

Especially minorities. Much of the world sees the US as a country overrun with white men openly carrying assault weapons. They see the police as terrifying people who attack minorities at will for no reason. Many I’ve talked with have no desire to visit the US because they see us as a backward country run by violent vigilantes. I wonder if, prior to the virus, Europe was overrun with hordes of tourists because fewer want to visit the US. There are times even I don’t want to be here.

[bluestarone]

8. UNBEARABLE to even watch!

EVIL has taken hold in our country! There is NO DOUBT about it! If police union protects these assholes FUCK THEM! and I'M a strong union person!!!!

[Submariner]

9. He may be one of those cops

who goes to prison his crime and ends up beaten to death in his cell for his senseless killing.

[Alacritous Crier]

14. Cops, if convicted...

go to minimum security county clubs.

As always, two systems of justice in the US.

[denvine]

10. This madness has got to end!

This cop should go to jail for life!!!!!!!

[olddad65]

11. Our dictator will be so proud of this cop.

[Alacritous Crier]

15. Yep!

[exboyfil]

12. The fact he wasn't relieved immediately

is the most damning part of this event. A man is in critical condition after being restrained by the LEO, and his supervisors weren't able to find out (or didn't want to find out) this basic fact of what happened especially with all the witnesses around.

[iluvtennis]

13. the guy was already down in the street with handcuffs...no need to put a knee in his neck.

Lock. The. Cop. Up. nt

[cayugafalls]

16. "I can't breathe."

This has to stop...

[Kid Berwyn]

18. Public Intoxication is not a capital offense.

Nor is calling in a suspected assault — remember Justine Ruszczyk, the woman shot dead as she approached a police car?

WTF, Minneapolis?

[johnthewoodworker]

19. Remember to tell the kids, the best gang in the world to join is your local PD.

[LittleGirl]

20. Stop Killing Black People!

Damn it all to hell.

[Wellstone ruled]

21. So will Mike Freeman

bow once again to the Police Union and let these two skate? This Video can not be disputed.

[progree]

22. MN Governor Walz, Senator Amy Klobuchar...

https://www.fox9.com/news/minnesota-governor-calls-lack-of-humanity-in-death-of-man-in-minneapolis-police-custody-is-sickening

“The lack of humanity in this disturbing video is sickening,” Walz said in a statement. “We will get answers and seek justice.”

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar described the incident as “horrifying and gut-wrenching” and called for those involved to be held responsible.

“Every single person in every single community deserves to feel safe,” Klobuchar said in a statement. “As the Mayor of Minneapolis noted, this tragic loss of life calls for immediate action.”

https://www.fox9.com/news/please-please-i-cant-breathe-man-dies-after-being-detained-by-minneapolis-police-fbi-investigating

“The video of a Minneapolis police officer killing a defenseless, handcuffed man is one of the most vile and heartbreaking images I’ve ever seen,” St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said in a statement. "The officer who stood guard is just as responsible as his partner; both must be held fully accountable. This must stop now.”

[BrightKnight]

24. The ABC video was worse.

The officer was mocking him and deliberately hurting him. It looked like a hate crime at least man slaughter

[Grasswire2]

25. forgery in progress??

What the hell?

That requires a knee on the neck?

[Traildogbob]

26. Paid

So after trump and GOP kill over a hundred thousand poor souls to the virus, I assume they get paid administrative leave. And the Georgia father son bubba duo will still get stimulus checks. After a weekend of war documentaries, seeing all the hell our soldiers Have gone through, and so many brutally killed for this country and its flag, this is what we end up with. This veteran has very little to stand for any more. I will be taking knees as the anthem plays, and will not salute the flag until GOP are demolished. I use to proudly salute the flag each time a boarded of left my Destroyer. DDG 18. Now, I have no pride for the flag because of this Destroyer DT 45.

[marieo1]

27. Sickening

This type of behavior by law enforcement just makes me sick!! Why?

[Auggie]

28. Voluntary manslaughter

I'd like to see homicide charges, but that would be impossible to get against cops.

[spike jones]

29. Now the real "police work" begins, Lying and Framing. n/t

[clementine613]

31. Another victim of Trump...

... and his ilk.

One more murder charge to lay at Trump's door.

[SpankMe]

32. I'm still waiting...

...for the right wing media to dredge up videos if cops killing white people under these same scenarios. A few cons out there are trying to say that police abuse whites just as much as blacks. You'd think that Fox, Hannity, Tucker, Blaze and all the right wing nuts would have come up with abundant video evidence of this by now.

But, alas, all they can find is Cliven Bundy and his rebels getting off scott-free for taking over a federal office with guns.

[Blue Owl]

33. Firing them isn't enough

I wanna see some fucking heads rolling -- killing and/or being an accessory to this man's death is MURDER plain and simple.

Put that cop away for life and the other do-nothings at least 25 years.

[dalton99a]

34. Kick

[Hassin Bin Sober]

38. Later died? I think the victim died on scene.

The cops are trying, and will try, to claim he died of natural causes. Saying he died “later” is just part of that.