Four Minneapolis Officers Fired After Video Showing Black Man Killed During Arrest; Mayor Gives Impassioned Statement

Four Minneapolis police officers involved in an arrest Monday that resulted in the death of an African-American man have been fired, a decision the city’s mayor declared “the right call.” Ahead of the announcement of the officers’ termination, the mayor gave an impassioned statement condemning the officer shown in a viral video with his knee on the neck of the man for having “failed in the most basic, human sense.”

In a disturbing video streamed on social media Monday (warning: graphic content), a Minneapolis police officer, who is white, is shown kneeling on a handcuffed black suspect’s neck for multiple minutes while the man pleads with him to get off, saying repeatedly that he “can’t breathe.”