Four Milwaukee hotel staff face murder charges over D’Vontaye Mitchell death

Mitchell died after being pinned face down after incident in hotel in June, drawing comparisons to George Floyd case

Prosecutors charged four Milwaukee hotel employees on Tuesday with being a party to felony murder in connection with D'Vontaye Mitchell's death.

Mitchell was Black. The incident has drawn comparisons to the murder of George Floyd, a Black man who died in 2020 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck for about nine minutes. Floyd's death sparked a national reckoning on race relations marked by multiple protests around the country.