A white Milwaukee guy has actually pleaded innocent to a criminal charge submitted versus him after video caught him with his hand around the neck of a Black male with unique requirements in a case lots of are calling an example of racial profiling.
Robert Walczykowski, 62, just recently pleaded innocent to a disorderly conduct misdemeanor charge after video went viral of him covering his hand around the neck of 24- year-old Trevon Burks, who is Black and has a special needs.
While cops formerly kept Walczykowski’s name, the Milwaukee cops department has actually considering that verified the charge versus him, ABC news reported.
In the video, now seen over 10,000 times, Walczykowski has his hand on Burks’ neck, implicating him of taking a next-door neighbor’s bike.
Walczykowski later on implicates a good friend of Burks’ of taking the next-door neighbor’s bike. Both claims that Walczykowski made are unverified.
As seen in the video, the individual taping Walczykowski consistently asks him to eliminate his hand from Burks’ neck.
” I’m taping you– release the guy’s neck,” the individual holding the mobile phone video camera states.
” Go ahead, record,” Walczykowski states on the recording.
Walczykowski ultimately eliminates his hand and later on offers the individual taping the middle finger.
Walczykowski likewise continued to straddle the back wheel of Burks’ bike, avoiding Burks from leaving.
Eventually, Burks had the ability to escape Walczykowski. He left the location prior to authorities got to the scene.
Many revealed outrage at the video, consisting of Burks’ household, who called the encounter with Walczykowski an example of “hatred”.
” My kid didn’t do anything incorrect and, if I was to get justice, I would desire him to spend for what he did,” stated Burks’ mom, Tracey, throughout a press conference recently.
” That was extremely incorrect for him to do that and he might’ve come at my boy a various method. He didn’t need to choke my child. It was a hatred thing what he did.”
Many who weighed in on the conflict prior to Walczykowski was charged questioned whether Burks may have been more severely injured– or even worse– if the encounter had actually occurred at a time when cellular phones weren’t common.
Some even described the United States’s outrageous history of lynchings. According to records preserved by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a minimum of 4,800 Black individuals were lynched by racists throughout the United States from 1882 to 1968.
False or unverified allegations of misbehaviours in some cases sustained those murders.