(video in link.....i don't condone what this cop is doing....now we know why this hasn't shown up on any left-wing media channel, it's black on black, doesn't fit their narrative)
A Mississippi cop held a young man by the neck as onlookers screamed, “He can’t breathe!,” troubling video shows.
The 2-minute clip posted to Facebook Friday shows a uniformed Jackson police officer with both hands wrapped around the man’s neck.
“What did I tell you to do?” the officer screams at the man, video shows. “Make me, make me, make me … I said make me, boy.”
The officer, identified by the Jackson Free Press as Myron Smith, then tells a woman who tries to intervene to take her hands off him as she says the man is having trouble breathing.
“He’s trying to breathe!” she says. “He’s telling you he can’t breathe.”
Smith then tells the woman he isn’t choking the young man as he holds him against a black Toyota Camry with Mississippi plates, video shows.
It’s unclear what prompted the confrontation, but Smith references telling the man to leave, video shows.
“When I told you to leave, what should you have done, huh?” the officer yells in the man’s face. “What should you have done when I told you to leave?”
Smith then insists he doesn’t have his hands on the man’s throat as several witnesses watch and beg the officer to stop, video shows.
“That’s all you had to do,” the officer yells at the man before ultimately telling him to leave the area as he lets go of his neck, according to the clip.
A message seeking comment from Jackson police was not immediately returned.
Smith has been placed on administrative leave after department officials saw the footage, police spokesman Sam Brown told the Jackson Free Press.
“When the video surfaced, it got to Chief James Davis, and he immediately placed [Smith] on administrative leave and turned it over to Internal Affairs,” Brown said.
No arrests were made, but a report on the incident was submitted, Davis told the Clarion Ledger, adding that a local jail is not taking misdemeanor cases due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba also denounced the incident in a statement.
“This administration is clear that we are trying to build an approach to public safety that is about trust, collaborations, and integrity,” the statement read. “Any actions that do not reflect those principles have no place in the city of Jackson.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost...r-video-shows-his-hands-around-mans-neck/amp/
A Mississippi cop held a young man by the neck as onlookers screamed, “He can’t breathe!,” troubling video shows.
The 2-minute clip posted to Facebook Friday shows a uniformed Jackson police officer with both hands wrapped around the man’s neck.
“What did I tell you to do?” the officer screams at the man, video shows. “Make me, make me, make me … I said make me, boy.”
The officer, identified by the Jackson Free Press as Myron Smith, then tells a woman who tries to intervene to take her hands off him as she says the man is having trouble breathing.
“He’s trying to breathe!” she says. “He’s telling you he can’t breathe.”
Smith then tells the woman he isn’t choking the young man as he holds him against a black Toyota Camry with Mississippi plates, video shows.
It’s unclear what prompted the confrontation, but Smith references telling the man to leave, video shows.
“When I told you to leave, what should you have done, huh?” the officer yells in the man’s face. “What should you have done when I told you to leave?”
Smith then insists he doesn’t have his hands on the man’s throat as several witnesses watch and beg the officer to stop, video shows.
“That’s all you had to do,” the officer yells at the man before ultimately telling him to leave the area as he lets go of his neck, according to the clip.
A message seeking comment from Jackson police was not immediately returned.
Smith has been placed on administrative leave after department officials saw the footage, police spokesman Sam Brown told the Jackson Free Press.
“When the video surfaced, it got to Chief James Davis, and he immediately placed [Smith] on administrative leave and turned it over to Internal Affairs,” Brown said.
No arrests were made, but a report on the incident was submitted, Davis told the Clarion Ledger, adding that a local jail is not taking misdemeanor cases due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba also denounced the incident in a statement.
“This administration is clear that we are trying to build an approach to public safety that is about trust, collaborations, and integrity,” the statement read. “Any actions that do not reflect those principles have no place in the city of Jackson.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost...r-video-shows-his-hands-around-mans-neck/amp/
