Incredibly or not, the slaughter of black men at the hands of law enforcement officers continues, with the latest transgression occurring on Memorial Day in Minneapolis when four police officers were involved in the killing of black man who died in police custody.
Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey took swift action, firing the four officers on Tuesday announcing on Twitter that “This is the right call.”
For five minutes, we watched a white officer press his knee into a Black man’s neck.
A bystander’s video showed an officer kneeling on the handcuffed man’s neck, even after he pleaded that he could not breathe and then stopped moving.
It immediately drew comparisons to the case of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died in 2014 in New York after he was placed in a chokehold by police and pleaded for his life, saying he could not breathe.
