Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump announced that an independent autopsy judged George Floyd’s death a homicide, saying the pressure on his neck cut off blood flow to his brain, while the pressure on his back interfered with his ability to breathe
Photo: Ben Crump Law On May 25, a black man named George Floyd died in police custody at a Minnesota hospital following a brutal police assault that was captured in a bystander video. The footage shows a white Minneapolis Police Department officer named Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck as the he shouts, “I can’t breathe” and several bystanders shout for Chauvin to stop his attack. After several minutes, Floyd’s body appears to grow limp.
The video prompted Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey to apologize to the city’s black community on his Facebook page, where he wrote on Tuesday morning, “Being Black in America should not be a death sentence. For five minutes, we watched a white officer press his knee into a Black man’s neck … When you hear someone calling for help, you’re supposed to help. This officer failed in the most basic, human sense.
The officer who physically assaulted Floyd had a history of complaints against him NBC News reported on Wednesday that the officer seen kneeling on Floyd’s neck in the video, Derek Chauvin, has been with the department 19 years. During that time, he’s been the subject of numerous police-conduct complaints, including several use-of-force incidents, none of which resulted in discipline of any kind.
All four officers have been fired, and Chauvin has been arrested Mayor Frey announced on May 26 that the four responding officers had been terminated. Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said in a press conference the same day that the FBI will be investigating the case as a possible civil-rights infringement.
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