Minneapolis mayor calls for arrest of officer that killed George Floyd
The mayor of the US state of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, has called for the arrest of the white police officer, who killed an unarmed black man by pinning him to the ground.
"Why is the man who killed George Floyd not in jail?" Frey said during a press conference Wednesday. "If you had done it or I had done it, we would be behind bars right now."
A bystander’s cellphone video surfaced from the state Tuesday, showing the brutal treatment of an unarmed black man under the knee of a US police officer before his death.
"We are not talking about a split-second decision that was made incorrectly," Frey added. "There's somewhere around 300 seconds in those five minutes, every one of which the officer could have turned back ... and removed his knee from George Floyd's neck."
An ambulance took the suspect to the hospital, where he died a short time later.
“If most people, particularly people of color, had done what a police officer did late Monday, they’d already be behind bars,” said the Democrats mayor. “That’s why today I’m calling on Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to charge the arresting officer in this case.”
Police-involved shootings and killings of unarmed black men in the hands of white police officers have led to mass protests across the country in recent years and the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement.
"I would like for those officers to be charged with murder because that’s exactly what they did. They murdered my brother; he was crying for help,” Floyd’s sister, Bridgett said. "I don't need them to be suspended and able to work in another state or another county. Their licenses should be taken away, their jobs should be taken away, and they should be put in jail for murder.”
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