Some are calling Robert Minjarez Jr. the Latino Eric Garner. Sadly, the comparison is uncanny—including the failure of the system to indict the officers who killed Minjarez.
For about five minutes, the report said, Minjarez is heard on dashcam audio screaming, "Help! Help! Help me! Get off! You're going to kill me!" The report also quotes him as saying "You're going to suffocate..." and "I can't breathe" three times. He cried and screamed, his voice becoming "increasingly muffled, hoarse and strained" while repeating "I can't breathe," the report added.
About five minutes after he was restrained, the report said, Minjarez groaned and gurgled, and an officer said, "You got 265 pounds on your back, you're not going anywhere." The suspect groaned "and no more sounds are heard from him," the report said.
The report from the Lafayette, Louisiana, coroner lists the cause of death as "compressional asphyxia due to face-down physical restraint by law enforcement officers."
As was the case with the officers who killed Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, the grand jury proceedings in this case are sealed and prosecutors are not obligated to say a single word.
According to a local newspaper:
Minjarez was taken to the hospital by ambulance and EMS reported he "had blue ears and was not breathing initially." He remained in intensive care until declared brain dead and was declared dead on March 7, 2014.they are ignoring their own history and so with no accountability paid vacations while the dept. sets up their defense and return to duty why change anything? we give them guns and a license to kill so they kill and we shake our heads they contrive a story a year or two later court finds no wrong doing and the beat goes on.
when half the country see's no problem and the other half gets stricken with indifference and won't vote those on that side say they see no problem get to continue seeing no problems. we blame politicians rightfully so but really if we vote questionable people in and allow this kind of policing to permeate law enforcement are we not the bringers of our own pain?? as long as we are the ones getting murdered the power structure will not try to change anything.
