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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - "I can't breathe!" - the exclamation made by a black man, Eric Garner, while being placed in a police chokehold - was chosen as the most notable quote of the year in an ...
"I can't breathe" is a slogan of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. The phrase originates from the last words of Eric Garner , an unarmed man who was killed in 2014 after being put in a chokehold by a New York City police officer .
George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African-American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd might have used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. [2]
I can't breathe" is a slogan associated with the predominantly American political movement Black Lives Matter, particularly with the killings of Eric Garner and George Floyd by police, as well as with broader issues of police brutality and racial inequality.
Ten years after Eric Garner ’s death at the hands of New York City police officers made “I can’t breathe” a rallying cry, loved ones on Wednesday remembered his life and legacy. “I want ...
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - Ohio police released video of a Black man who died at a local hospital after repeatedly telling officers "I can't breathe" as they pinned him to the floor of a bar ...
"I can't undo what I've done. If I could, I would. I ask for your forgiveness if you can find it in your heart." [129] — John Ruthell Henry, right before being executed (18 June 2014) "I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can ...
McClain's repeated pleading that he couldn't breathe was an eerie foreshadowing of what Floyd famously said when he was pinned beneath the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer May 25, 2020.