However, the death of George Freud, a black man under the uniform of a white policeman, and the storm of protests that swept across the United States and even spread abroad caused by it were almost unusual from the beginning. Many people assert that this is an inflection point in the United States.
So, what makes this incident stand out among many similar American events?
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George Freud's whole process from arrest to death was filmed from many angles and widely spread and reported on various traditions and social media. Its details are well known to many people all over the world, and it is these details that make this incident very different from all previous events, or even fundamentally different.
At 8 o'clock on the evening of May 25, 2020, the darkness has not yet arrived in Minneapolis, north-central America. On the edge of a street, at the junction of gray cement and black asphalt, Freud was forced to crawl in the street. One side of his body is next to a parked black police car. Three heavily armed policemen knelt on him, one pressing his leg and the other pressing his torso, while Drake's chauvinism (also translated as Xiao Wen, but chauvinism was named after it) knees directly pressed Freud's neck.
Freud, who was so subdued, couldn't even swing his head and put his face directly on the street. In the video, he seems to be foaming at the mouth and complaining from time to time: "I can't breathe." "Please!" "Mom ..."
According to various reports, Freud was suspected of committing a heinous crime, that is, buying a pack of cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. After the store called the police, three police cars arrived one after another. When told of the alleged crime, Freud did not resist, but repeatedly claimed when he was handcuffed to a police car: "I have a phobia of confinement. I can't breathe. "
But he was stuffed into the back seat of a police car. When Sean arrived, he dragged Freud from the driver's side of the back seat to the guest's side and then dragged him out of the car. There is no report explaining why. No one answered my phone calls and emails to the hennepin county Procuratorate and Minneapolis Police Department.
Floyd, who was dragged out of the car, fell to the ground and lay beside the police car. Three policemen knelt on him. Someone said that in the first five minutes of being so subdued, Freud cried "I can't breathe" as many as 16 times. The onlookers repeatedly reminded the police: "You are blind, you didn't see his nose bleeding." "Stupid pig, he has no resistance. Put him in the car. " "Check his pulse." "Coward, people don't move, what are you doing? Do you like it? You can see it from your body language. "
Sean is indifferent to all this. He continued to put his knees on Freud's neck and put his hands in his pockets, looking very calm and indifferent. He sometimes looks up at passers-by who are shooting videos and shouting, but he still can't see any change in his facial expression. Colleagues asked Freud twice if he wanted to reverse his conviction, and Sean flatly denied it (both colleagues are novices, and Sean has 19 police year).
By the sixth minute, Freud stopped wriggling and talking. Another colleague felt Freud's pulse and said no, but Sean remained unmoved. Even after the ambulance arrived, Sean's knee remained on Freud's neck for a minute.
The police made Freud kneel for 8 minutes and 46 seconds without resistance. When Freud was taken to the ambulance, his limbs and neck were weak and there were no vital signs.
According to the latest report, when Sean and Freud were in a nightclub, they had many festivals. If so, the prosecution against Windsor is likely to escalate from second-degree murder to first-degree murder.