‘I cannot breathe’- graphic footage shows lead-up to death of George Floyd
- 4 years ago
the FBI and authorities in Minnesota have launched investigations into the death of George Floyd, an African American man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck 'for five minutes' while he was on the ground.
In footage posted to social media, Floyd can be heard shouting 'I cannot breathe' and 'Don’t kill me!' He then grows motionless, eyes closed, face-first on the road.
The incident happened on 26 May, when officers responded to a call from a grocery store that claimed Floyd had used a forged check. When located in his car, police said he 'physically resisted officers' while possibly under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
'For five minutes we watched as a white officer pressed his knee to the neck of a black man,' Jacob Frey, the Minneapolis mayor, said in a press conference. 'For five minutes. This officer failed in the most basic human sense'
In footage posted to social media, Floyd can be heard shouting 'I cannot breathe' and 'Don’t kill me!' He then grows motionless, eyes closed, face-first on the road.
The incident happened on 26 May, when officers responded to a call from a grocery store that claimed Floyd had used a forged check. When located in his car, police said he 'physically resisted officers' while possibly under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
'For five minutes we watched as a white officer pressed his knee to the neck of a black man,' Jacob Frey, the Minneapolis mayor, said in a press conference. 'For five minutes. This officer failed in the most basic human sense'