CCTV footage from a restaurant close to where African-American man George Floyd was choked to death by a Minneapolis police officer and 3 colleagues In Minnesota has been published by CBS News.
A video of a handcuffed black man dying while a Minneapolis officer knelt on his neck for more than five minutes sparked a fresh furor in the US over police treatment of African Americans Tuesday.
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The Video
Video of the police officer who knelt on Floyd to his death even after he said several times that he couldn’t breathe.
Who Is George Floyd
Four Minneapolis police officers were fired Tuesday, authorities said, amid protests and outrage after a viral video showed one of them kneeling on the neck of a handcuffed black man who cried that he could not breathe and later died.
A bystander’s video of the incident on the city’s south side captured George Floyd telling the officers “I cannot breathe” as he is pinned to the ground, and as an increasingly distraught crowd of onlookers pleads with the officer to move his knee.
washingtonpost.com reported.
New CCTV Footage.
New CCTV footage from the scene obtained by CBS News shows the very moment Floyd was apprehended by police and it suggests that George Floyd did not resist arrest at all. [video below.]
George Floyd Was Arrested For Suspected Forgery
The arrest of Mr. Floyd took place on Monday evening. The Minneapolis Police Department said in a statement that officers had responded to a call about a man suspected of forgery. The police said the man 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 had called for an ambulance.
On Tuesday morning, without referring to the video recorded by a bystander, the police updated a statement, titled “Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction,” saying that additional information had “been made available” and that the F.B.I. was joining the investigation.
according to nytimes.com
Twitter Reactions, #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
Meanwhile, Twitter, and the media, and the whole internet has taken Floyd’s side, starting a hashtags #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd, #Minneapolis #MinnesotaPolice #MinneapolisPolice #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #icantbreathe #BlackLivesMatters #MinneapolisPoliceMurderdHim #RIPGeorgeFloyd #GeorgeFloyd.
See some of the many ways Twitter reacted to Floyd’s death below.