Four American policemen sacked after the death of a black man, one of whom pressed his neck with his knee

Four American policemen sacked after the death of a black man, one of whom pressed his neck with his knee

Four policemen were sacked in the US city of Minneapolis on Tuesday after a video showing one of them kneeling on the neck of a handcuffed black man who died later suffocated, sparking protests and demonstrations.

The demonstrators, many of whom were putting up masks in compliance with the measures to combat the emerging Corona Virus, held banners reading "Justice for George Floyd" and "Black Life Matters", during a demonstration that took place near the site of the death of the forty-year-old while he was arrested.

The videotape filmed by passerby Floyd is topless, showing him knocked to the ground while a white officer presses his knee on his neck for more than five minutes.

Hear Floyd pleading, "Your knee is on my neck ..." I can't breathe ... mom ... mom. "

Floyd is silent little by little and stops moving, while officers continue to defy him, saying "Get up and get in the car" while one of them is still holding him to the ground with his knee.

After the four policemen involved in the accident were sacked, Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frye expressed his condemnation amid calls for the four to be tried for murder.

Commenting on the video, he said, "What I saw was wrong on all levels."

"We followed for five minutes, while a white policeman pressed his knee on the neck of a black man," he added.

"To be black in America should not be a death sentence," he added.

Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump announced that the Floyd family had entrusted him with the case.

In an announcement, Crump said, police have arrested Floyd over a forgery charge, a charge often used in cases of unpaid checks or the use of counterfeit securities.

He continued, "This arbitrary, excessive and inhuman use of force was the price of the life of a man whom the police had stopped for questioning in connection with his association with a non-violent charge."

Floyd's death is remembered by Eric Garner's death asphyxiation in 2014 after police arrested him for selling cigarettes illegally.

His death at the time led to the establishment of the Black Lives Mater movement or "Black lives matter."

The Minneapolis Chief of Police Medaria Aradondo announced that he had referred the case to the FBI, which may classify it as a federal case of rights violation.

But calls are mounting for police officers to be arrested for murder.

“This is just evil,” Minneapolis civil rights attorney Nikima Levy Armstrong wrote on Twitter.

He added, "The police officers should be charged and convicted with the murder."

Bernice King, daughter of civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King, posted on Twitter a composite image showing the image of the policeman kneeling on Floyd's neck and next to her the image of San Francisco football player Nineers Colin Cabernick kneeling on his knee during the US national anthem to protest police violence and social injustice.

She wrote, "If the first knee does not bother you, or say what disturbs you, but the second raises your disapproval, then this means that, according to my father's expression + more eager to order than you to justice +."

The accident took place at a time when a video showing a white woman summoning police against a black man watching birds at Central Park in New York spread out.

The woman was later fired after her behavior sparked condemnation and accusations of racism.

It also comes after two incidents in which two blacks were killed by the police.

In Brunswick, Georgia, the police and prosecutors were charged with covering up the killing of the black young man, Ahmad Arbiri, while he was running while he was shot by a retired inspector who worked for the local public prosecutor.

It is believed that the police detained for two months a video documenting the crime, in which Ahmed Arbiri, 25, appears to be trying to circumvent a pickup, stopped on his way, but a man intercepts him while she hears three shots.

Crump represents the families of Arberry and Taylor.

The American Civil Liberties Union announced that the Minneapolis case shows that police continue to mistreat blacks accused of non-serious cases.

"This tragic video shows how little has changed to prevent the police from killing blacks," said Paige Fernandez, a civil rights association expert.

He continued, "Even in places like Minneapolis, where the arrest of the neck is practically prohibited, black police are targeted for non-serious crimes and they are subjected to irrational and unnecessary violence."