Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday known as the dying of George Floyd by the hands of Minneapolis cops “horrifying” and mentioned the killing was completely a “criminal case.”
“If I used to be a prosecutor, I might have a look at the automobile from the primary second,” mentioned Cuomo — a former state lawyer normal and onetime prosecutor with the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace — throughout his day by day coronavirus briefing.
“There’s a criminal case there.”
He linked the incident to the 2014 police chokehold dying of Eric Garner on Staten Island, including that “incidents like this should by no means occur anyplace on this nation.”
“Some individuals attempt to justify it by saying, ‘Properly, we are able to be taught from this,’” the governor mentioned. “However what number of occasions do now we have to be taught?”
Floyd, 46, who was black, died after being pinned to the bottom by a white Minneapolis police officer, who ignored his pleas that he couldn’t breathe.
The case has sparked nationwide outrage and two nights of protests in Minneapolis — some violent.
Mayor Jacob Frey this week fired all 4 cops who had been on the scene and known as for the arrest of Police Officer Derek Chauvin, the cop proven on viral video along with his knee to Floyd’s neck.
Frey requested Hennepin County Legal professional Mike Freeman to cost Chauvin.
A spokesman for the workplace mentioned it’s working with state authorities and the county coroner “to expeditiously collect and assessment all the proof within the tragic dying of Mr. George Floyd.”
“The videotaped dying of Mr. Floyd, which has outraged us and folks throughout the nation, deserve one of the best we may give and that’s what this workplace will do.”
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