WASHINGTON: A policing
human rights
horror that has thrived uncontrolled for decades is starting to unfold in
the United States
, which for decades has lectured the world on civil liberties.
Several buried accounts of rampant cops killing black men with impunity are surfacing following the police murder of
George Floyd
that has ignited a movement for racial justice across the country, and across the world. In some instances, the black men have uttered the same last words Floyd gasped as he died under the knee of a policeman in Minneapolis: “I can’t breath” – which has become a rallying cry of protesters.
In the most vivid case to surface this week, a 40-year old black postal worker was chased by a
police officer
in Austin,
Texas
, for 22 minutes in March 2019 because he failed to dim the headlights of his SUV for oncoming traffic. When police eventually caught up with the man Javier Ambler, 40, a father of two kids, they tasered him four times even as he told deputies he has congestive heart failure and couldn’t breathe.
“He cried, ‘Save me,’ before deputies deployed a final shock. His death never made headlines