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ghostsinthemachine

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 10:31 PM Jul 2015

"I can't breathe".... here we go again, unarmed male choked to death by Mississippi cop....

State officials in Mississippi are investigating the death of an unarmed black man who was killed in a physical struggle with a police officer while saying “I can’t breathe”, according to his attorney.

Jonathan Sanders suffered “some kind of asphyxiation” during an altercation with white officer Kevin Harrington on Wednesday night, in the small town of Stonewall, in the eastern part of the state, said the attorney, J Stewart Parrish.

Sanders, 39, was a father of two children including a one-year-old, according to his family.

Parrish told several local media outlets that Harrington pulled Sanders from a horse and choked him to death with a flashlight. Parrish told the Guardian on Friday that allegation had come from relatives who live beside the site of the struggle and witnessed it.

READ MORE: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/10/mississippi-death-unarmed-black-man-jonathan-sanders

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"I can't breathe".... here we go again, unarmed male choked to death by Mississippi cop.... (Original Post) ghostsinthemachine Jul 2015 OP
Ho hum, ghostsinthemachine Jul 2015 #1
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