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Here is the one hundred seventy-fourth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s winners are four unnamed Minneapolis police officers. They are so honored for murdering yet another unarmed black man, who begged for mercy as one killed him and the rest watched.<\/font><\/p>\n In Minneapolis on Monday evening, a white officer bore down with his knee<\/a> on the neck of a handcuffed black man who lay sprawled on the street, rasping, \u201cI cannot breathe\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t kill me.\u201d<\/strong> The man died a short time after.<\/p>\n The suspect, George Floyd, was in his 40s. He was arrested when officers responded to what they called a suspected \u201cforgery in progress.\u201d They said the man appeared to be intoxicated and that he resisted arrest, though no evidence has been presented for either assertion.<\/p>\n There is plain evidence of what came next, however, from a video<\/a> recorded by someone in a group of witnesses who stood a few feet away. In it, the white officer appears impassive, almost bored, as the suspect gasps for breath. He is unmoved as witnesses curse and plead with him to get off the suspect\u2019s neck, as they warn that the man\u2019s nose is bleeding, that he can\u2019t breathe, that he isn\u2019t resisting. Nor does the officer relent when an ambulance medic arrives and checks the man\u2019s neck for a pulse\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Washington Post<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n Here are two video clips reporting on the incident.<\/font><\/p>\n 4 cops fired after video shows one kneeling on neck of black man who later died<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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ANOTHER DAY in the United States, another unarmed black man dead following unwarranted, insupportable, outrageous police violence. When will it end?<\/p>\n