The four Minneapolis police officers involved in the deadly altercation between George Floyd, a man who pleaded with officers to breathe during a Monday arrest, were terminated on Tuesday.
“Four responding MPD officers involved in the death of George Floyd have been terminated,” the tweet read.
The announcement comes after a video of Floyd’s last moments showed an officer placing his knee on his neck prior to him losing consciousness.
A new widely circulated video on social media showed a deadly, disturbing police encounter where a Black man lost his life after being constricted from breathing on Monday.
In the nine-minute video the unidentified man, who is believed to be in his 40’s, can be seen on the ground while a Minneapolis officer kneels down placing his knee on the man’s neck outside of a grocery store called Cup Foods.
