Another episode of brutal police violence in the United States. This time, the luckily surviving victim is a 12yearold African American girl who was involved in a fight with another student in the cafeteria at her school in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Video captured by the surveillance cameras shows an agent stepping in, throwing the girl to the ground and pressing his knee on her neck for “over 20 seconds,” according to her lawyer. He then picks her up violently, handcuffs her, and leads her away.
The officer was not on police duty at the time but was working as a security guard at a school, resigning from the latter role. The still image of the 12yearold girl on the ground, in jeans and a colorful sweatshirt, with her face smashed and the agent’s knee behind her neck, is cold. And it’s further evidence that there is a widespread and disproportionate use of force among American law enforcement. A few days ago, another disturbing episode surfaced: Edward Bronstein, a 38yearold white man, was arrested by police in California for a stop and died of asphyxiation at the hands of the agents, who mercilessly pressed his knees onto his back while ” I can” repeated. not breathing’. The same phrase that George Floyd, the 46yearold African American man who was killed by Minneapolis police, uttered for the last time two months later, has become a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement’s protests against police brutality. In the video, which was filmed at Kenosha’s Lincoln Middle School, the police officer is seen rushing in with exaggerated anger to quell the fight. Before throwing the girl to the ground, he throws another student to the ground it’s not clear if he’s a boy or a girl because he’s wearing a hooded sweatshirt again with unprecedented violence. The girl’s father said that “her daughter is very traumatized and doesn’t want to go to school anymore.” The family’s lawyer denounced “the cruel and merciless violence against a young girl” and urged the police to immediately fire the agent.
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