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Re: Police rightist bias
« Reply #405 on: October 05, 2022, 07:03:02 pm »
https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-mocked-handcuffed-black-man-092837199.html

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Police 'mocked' a handcuffed Black man with asthma when he said he had chest pains. He had a heart attack and died.
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A recently published coroner's prevention of future deaths report describes how Ian McDonald-Taylor, 54, was arrested by police in Brixton, south London, on June 29, 2019, after a "physical altercation."

Police arrest McDonald-Taylor and handcuffed him as he lay on the sidewalk. He soon began complaining of chest pains and difficulty breathing.

McDonald-Taylor, who was known to have severe asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, repeated phrases to officers, recorded on Body-worn footage, such as "I'm fading" and "I'm going to die. Stand me up now." said the report.

It said that a police constable, whose name was redacted, radio-ed a sergeant and said, "he's currently on the floor playing the whole poor me poor me; he's going to have to go to the hospital though as a matter of course," and later said, "He's saying he has chest pains he can't breathe blah blah; it's a load of nonsense, but there we go."

Moments after this interaction, McDonald-Taylor went into cardiac arrest and died at a local hospital a few hours later.
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Senior Coroner Andrew Harris' report said that the anonymous officer "could not bring himself to apologize to the family."

And why is the department allowing him to maintain anonymity?

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"How many more deaths will it take before the police take seriously a Black man who says he can't breathe?"

They won't. It is demographic warfare.