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FBI Investigating Death Of Black Man Pinned To Ground By Police Officer - NPR
May 26, 2020 1 min, 14 secs
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, shown here in February, decried the man's death, saying, "All I can come back to is that he should not have died.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, shown here in February, decried the man's death, saying, "All I can come back to is that he should not have died.

The mayor of Minneapolis says four Minneapolis Police Department officers involved in the death of a black man in police custody have been terminated.

A 10-minute video widely circulated on social media and referenced by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey shows a police officer using his knee to pin the man's neck to the ground for multiple minutes.

Four responding MPD officers involved in the death of George Floyd have been terminated.

Officers called for an ambulance," the department said.

Frey and Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo noted at the news conference that the officers involved were wearing body cameras

Amnesty International USA called for the police officer involved to be held accountable for what happened, citing circumstances similar to those in the death of Eric Garner in 2014

"We are incensed that nearly six years after Eric Garner uttered 'I can't breathe' as he was killed by the New York Police Department, police officers still don't seem to have learned to listen to a person's call for help," Amnesty's Kristina Roth said in a release

Nearly four years ago, another police department in the area faced criticism for an incident in which an officer killed black motorist Philando Castile

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