Article 121ZK Man gasps dying words into officer's bodycam: "They're killing me right now... I can't breathe."

Man gasps dying words into officer's bodycam: "They're killing me right now... I can't breathe."

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Cory Doctorow
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In 2013, Ana Biocini called the Oakland police because she'd heard a noise and thought there might be an intruder in the house. When the police arrived, they handcuffed her brother, Hernan Jaramillo, "without any lawful reason or justification," dragged him 20 feet down the sidewalk, threw him facedown into the ground, and three officers knelt on him while he begged for breath. The 51 year old man died at the scene.

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