William Ahmo uttered the words “I can’t breathe” more than 20 times while officers swarmed and restrained him in a Manitoba jail, video footage of his final hours at the Headingley Correctional Centre shows.

The video footage, shot on a handheld camera inside the jail more than two years ago, was shown in a Winnipeg courtroom last week during the first day of a trial for the corrections officer who faces charges in Ahmo’s death.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Don’t even have to open the article to know that the excuse of the cops will be “that’s just a trick they pull all the time because they think it’ll make us go easy on them, so we didn’t listen”

    Well judging by how you keep murdering people by making it impossible for them to breathe, I’d say that “trick” is absolutely fucking justified, you murderous bastards!