[ad_1]
10:47 pm
Thursday 03 September 2020
Agencies:
Activists in the United States organize protests in American cities, following the circulation of a video clip showing the arrest of a black American who died of suffocation in March after police in upstate New York put a hood over his head. head while lying on the ground naked and handcuffed, according to Reuters.
On Wednesday, the family of the deceased, Daniel Broad, requested the arrest of the police officers responsible for his death, which occurred seven days after the fact.
The New York Times cited an autopsy report that the Monroe County coroner determined that Brod’s death was a murder that occurred as a result of “complications from asphyxia that occurred in the form of physical restraint.”
Brod died on March 30, seven days after his arrest and two months before the death of a black American, George Floyd, while in the hands of the Minneapolis police, whose death sparked international protests against police brutality and discrimination. racial in America.
Activists planning to hold protests Thursday in New York’s Rochester and Times Square have called for the arrest and trial of the police officers involved in Brod’s murder.
The Broad family posted the video Wednesday after filing a Freedom of Information Act request, and protests broke out in downtown Rochester, the city about 300 miles north of New York. The Democrat and Chronicle reported that police fired pepper spray at the protesters and arrested nine of them.
On Thursday, Rochester police declined to comment on what appeared in the video, and an attorney for the Broad family did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
