This broad daylight murder.(VIDEO)
A man died on Monday night after pleading with Minneapolis police officers that he could not breathe while he was being detained. The FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension are investigating the incident. Shortly after 8 p.m., officers responded to the 3700 block of Chicago Avenue South on a report of a forgery in progress, according to a news release from the Minneapolis Police Department. Once on scene, they found a man believed to be in his 40s who appeared to be sitting in his car. Officers ordered him to get out of the car and when he did, police said he started resisting arrest. Police said officers were able to get the man into handcuffs and noted the man “appeared to be suffering medical distress.” But a video taken by a bystander shows one of the officers holding the man down on the ground, pressing his knee into the man’s neck as the man repeats that he cannot breathe. “Please,” the man can be heard saying. "Please, please I can’t breathe.” It went ...
