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The situation with police violence in the United States remains off limits, despite several months of angry protests across the country and promises at the state level for policy changes. Donald Trump and his top ministers insist on adding fuel to the fire.
A young black man was shot and killed by police in Washington on Wednesday night, just days after the bloody Wisconsin incident.
Police say they went to the southeastern part of the city to investigate information about gunmen inside a vehicle.
“As they approached the vehicle, some people started running to escape and a police officer used his service weapon,” killing one man, US Police Chief Peter Newsham told a news conference.
“We believe that this person was carrying a weapon at the time,” he said, assuring that two weapons were found and confiscated at the scene.
The victim was a “young African American,” local elected official Trayon White told the media, demanding that the images taken by police cameras be made public.
“It won’t be like that, don’t let the media cloud this case,” said the local branch of the Black Lives Matter movement, calling for a demonstration.
The case comes amid months of brutality against police in the United States and two days after the Los Angeles police killed an African-American man riding a bicycle.
Died of torture in the street
Anger is unleashed with a new video released yesterday that records the torture moments of Nathaniel Prut, 41, who passed away last March.
Police had gone to a Rochester neighborhood to arrest the man who was walking naked down the street while allegedly under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Prut shows no resistance, falls to the road and surrenders. The police, after handcuffing him, put a plastic bag on his head and began to taunt him, with the images recalling other completely free regimes.
It has not been determined why the bag was put on the 41-year-old man’s head, but there are leaks that indicate that it is a measure … to protect the police from the coronavirus, so that they do not come in contact with saliva and others liquids from detainees.
The video shows Daniel Prut having a panic attack, starting to get hit, and then the police lying on the asphalt and a uniformed man pressing his head against the road.
The unfortunate man reportedly vomited into the bag, was taken to hospital, where he struggled to stay alive, but died after seven days. His death was recorded as a homicide resulting in fatal suffocation injuries.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the family of Daniel Proud, a black man who was suffocated by police actions in New York in March, while he was naked, tied and immobilized, demanded that justice be done.
Bar: No racist murders of unarmed blacks
In this climate, the country’s Justice Minister added fuel to the fire by stating that he does not believe that there is systemic racism in the US judicial system, describing as a “false narrative” that many unarmed blacks are shot by white police officers in the United States.
“I think we’ve made significant progress in the last 60 years,” Barr said in an interview with CNN reporter Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday.
“Listening to the American left today, you would think that we are not making progress at all,” he said.
“I think the story that the police are in an epidemic of shooting unarmed blacks is just a false narrative.” The fact is, it is very rare for a white policeman to shoot an unarmed African American. “
For his part, Donald Trump yesterday threatened to suspend federal funds in cities where “anarchy” prevails, such as Seattle, Portland, New York and Washington.
“My administration will not allow taxpayer dollars to fund cities that are becoming lawless zones,” the White House said in a statement.
