“I can’t breathe” were some of the last words that a handcuffed George Floyd said as he was pinned on the ground, while a white Minneapolis police officer held a knee to his neck for several minutes on Monday. Floyd, a black man, is now dead.
Now the four officers from the Minneapolis Police Department involved in the incident have been fired. Police Chief Medaria Arradondo announced their terminations during a news conference Tuesday afternoon. He did not publicly identify the officers.Tensions on social media are flaring across the country since video of the incident was published to Facebook early Tuesday morning. Floyd’s distressed calls went ignored by the police.
At a Tuesday morning press conference, Arradondo asked for a federal probe into the incident after seeing the video and receiving “additional information” from officers involved in the arrest. The incident stokes painful memories for many locals of the fatal police shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark in 2014 during a confrontation at a birthday party. The killing set off protests outside a local police precinct that lasted 18 days.
Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder would not elaborate on whether Floyd had any preexisting medical conditions, but said that he appeared to be under the influence of alcohol or a narcotic.“In my years as an officer, that would not be what I would ever consider a chokehold,” Elder said.
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