DETROIT (AP) — Three security guards who held a man to the floor at a Detroit-area mall in 2014 were acquitted of involuntary manslaughter on his death on Friday in a case that was reopened years later by state prosecutors.
DETROIT — Three security guards who held a man to the floor at a Detroit-area mall in 2014 were acquitted of involuntary manslaughter on his death on Friday in a case that was reopened years later by state prosecutors.
DETROIT — A prosecutor urged jurors Friday to apply “common sense” and convict three security guards of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a man who said he couldn't breathe while being pinned to the floor at a Detroit-area mall in 2014. Cochran, 25, a Black man with an enlarged heart, repeatedly said “I can’t breathe” while face down, according to witnesses. He died of heart failure and asphyxiation during the roughly 10-minute encounter that grew from two guards to five. It was recorded on a mall camera and other video, showing that the guards had asked the unarmed man to stop resisting.
“Use your common sense today,” the prosecutor said, “and find them guilty of involuntary manslaughter.” Blake said there was no new evidence, except for the opinion of a forensic pathologist, Dr. Carl Schmidt, who looked at records and testified that the death was not an accident and might be considered a homicide.
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