"Phoenix has its own 'I can't breathe' case. The outcome was far different"

[Miigwech]

Enough! Warning on video.

Phoenix has its own 'I can't breathe' case. The outcome was far different

.... In 2017, Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin Jr. tried to take his dog with him to the bathroom at a city community center in west Phoenix. The police were called, discovered he had a warrant for his arrest, and decided to detain him.

At least four officers got on top of him and held him down. Some put their knees on his neck and head.

"I can't breathe," Muhaymin is heard saying several times in police body camera footage. When officers eventually got off him, Muhaymin had no pulse, according to comments from officers in the video, and lay in a pool of his own vomit.

He was 43, unarmed and black.

The Maricopa County Examiner's Office ruled Muhaymin's death a homicide, according to that office's database. Muhaymin is one of 35 people who died while in police custody in Maricopa County since 2017, according to the county prosecutor's office.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2020/06/05/phoenix-police-death-case-2017-muhammad-muhaymin-jr-resembles-george-floyd-death/3145190001/

[Nevilledog]

1. That's a horrific story.

So much injustice.

[UpInArms]

2. Murderers

"I cannot breathe. I can't breathe," Muhaymin says repeatedly.

Meanwhile, Chiquita is pacing back and forth watching the officers pile on Muhaymin, the video shows.

At some point, Muhaymin throws up and officers are heard saying to call for medical help, the video shows.

"I don't think he's breathing," one officer is heard saying.

Another officer says, "I don't feel a pulse."

"Oh, he is dead," an officer says before he turns his camera off.

Muhaymin was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

This racial profiling and murdering must cease.

Cops don’t want to be compared and condemned. Screw that. It is exactly what they are doing ... and then they execute helpless people.

Until they stop what they are doing, we will not stop fighting.