FBI and Minnesota agents investigate the death of a black man in Minneapolis police custody after video showed a white officer kneeling on his neck.
A jury on Friday found 29-year-old Minnesota police Officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty in the fatal shooting of black motorist Philando Castile during a traffic stop near St.
Nekima Levy-Armstrong, a prominent local activist, said watching the video that was shared on social media made her “sick to her stomach,” and called the incident another example of police brutality toward African American men, the“Whatever the man may have done should not have ended in a death sentence,” she said. “What started as an alleged economic incident once again turned deadly for a black man.
Levy-Armstrong said the incident reminded her of the Eric Garner case. He was an unarmed New York man who died in 2014 after he was placed in a chokehold by police and pleaded for his life, saying he couldn’t breathe. A grand jury laterGet breaking news, investigations, analysis and more signature journalism from the Los Angeles Times in your inbox.Police in Minneapolis have come under the microscope in recent years for deadly run-ins with residents.
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