'Being black in America should not be a death sentence.”
Floyd appears to become unresponsive and is wheeled away on a stretcher by paramedics.
The officers involved were responding to a report of a forgery in progress in south Minneapolis just after 8 p.m. when they found Floyd sitting in his car, according to a TuesdayFloyd stepped out of the vehicle when asked to, but then “physically resisted officers,” the police department said. The officers believed Floyd was “sufferingdistress," and called for an ambulance to take him to a hospital, where he died shortly after.
Darnella Fraziern, a witness on the scene, told NBC News that Floyd was “clearly trying to tell them he couldn’t breathe,” while he was being restrained, adding that “[the police]
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