Policemen kill by suffocating to death a man & shoot and kill another handcuffed man
10-02-2014, 11:27 AM
http://rt.com/usa/188908-louisiana-polic...ed-misled/
Minjarez was standing outside the door, hallucinating
Minjarez was cuffed at his hands and feet, then pinned to the ground by at least three cops, surveillance video showed.
Minjarez could be heard saying, “I didn’t do anything, I didn’t do nothing,” the Louisiana Forensic Center’s pathologist report said. Later, he “can be heard screaming, ‘help, help, help me get them off, you’re going to kill me… what the [expletive] did I do’, followed by ‘you’re going to suffocate...’ and “I can’t breathe’ [three] times.”
He was pinned down for four minutes before he stopped breathing.
The cause of death was homicide by suffocation.
"I read to the part where he begged for his life and I just lost it," Cortez said to Reuters. "It was like he died twice."
On Thursday, the FBI confirmed it would investigate the case.
They are also investigating another contentious police-involved death from the same night, which occurred only 20 miles away. In that case, Victor White III was shot dead while handcuffed in the back of a police car in New Iberia, in what the local coroner ruled a suicide. However, family members say it was a police killing, Reuters reported.
Cortez said she wants justice over the death of her son.
Minjarez was standing outside the door, hallucinating
Minjarez was cuffed at his hands and feet, then pinned to the ground by at least three cops, surveillance video showed.
Minjarez could be heard saying, “I didn’t do anything, I didn’t do nothing,” the Louisiana Forensic Center’s pathologist report said. Later, he “can be heard screaming, ‘help, help, help me get them off, you’re going to kill me… what the [expletive] did I do’, followed by ‘you’re going to suffocate...’ and “I can’t breathe’ [three] times.”
He was pinned down for four minutes before he stopped breathing.
The cause of death was homicide by suffocation.
"I read to the part where he begged for his life and I just lost it," Cortez said to Reuters. "It was like he died twice."
On Thursday, the FBI confirmed it would investigate the case.
They are also investigating another contentious police-involved death from the same night, which occurred only 20 miles away. In that case, Victor White III was shot dead while handcuffed in the back of a police car in New Iberia, in what the local coroner ruled a suicide. However, family members say it was a police killing, Reuters reported.
Cortez said she wants justice over the death of her son.