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Newly-Released Video Shows Police Suffocating Black Man

September 3, 2020 at 10:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A Black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released by the man’s family,” the Associated Press reports.

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