Earlier this year, Herman Whitfield died while being restrained by police in Indianapolis. He was recorded saying “I can’t breathe” shortly before his death.
The county coroner ruled the death was a homicide in July.
The story has been ignored by the national media, and there have been no mass protests.
Is the police killing of an unarmed Black man of no great concern now that Biden is in the White House?
When you are dying of a heart attack, (like from a meth overdose, or from a panic attack induced by mental illness and/or an stressful situation)
you feel like you can’t breathe and tend to say things like “I can’t breathe.”
When you are being choked to death you can neither breathe nor talk.
It would be very very wrong of LEOs to hear a man say “I can’t breathe” and then assume he was lying simply because he was not being choked. As soon as the person is calm they should get him an ambulance.
Yes, the death appears to be the result of police using excessive force to restrain Whitfield.
. . . Officers then converged on him, handcuffing him as he lay on his stomach. Attorneys for Whitfield’s family said officers put him at risk of asphyxia by keeping their body weight on him while he was restrained and described their use of force as “unreasonable, excessive and deadly.”
He was heard saying “I can’t breathe” in the body camera footage. He later died at the hospital.
“As his death occurred during a physical prone restraint, and this restraint played a role in his death, the manner of death is listed as homicide,” the coroner’s report concluded.
My observation is that death would have attracted much more attention if had occurred in 2020. Why has there been radio silence from the national media?
Where is the national coverage on his funeral? Where are the eulogies and street murals?
Democrats can’t ignore black people in between Primaries while also pretending to care about black people. 
Here’s my guess.
There wasn’t a cell phone video that captured it in the moment. There is a bodycam video, but it’s missing something the George Floyd video had…this.
And no…it’s not just that the cop is white
It’s the look on his face.
If the George Floyd video didn’t have this image in it, I am guessing there would not have been the riots to the degree there were.
Let’s see. White guy dies being subdued by cops.
Hmmm,….
hmmmm…
Maybe…nope…
Doesn’t fit a narrative. Not news.
No political agenda to be gained…
Herman Whitfield III was a black guy.
Oh. Then I am mystified.
The OPer and others are claiming it’s because a Dem is in the White House and so since there’s no political benefit, no one is upset.
I have a different take…I think mine is more plausible.
Because remember, when George Floyd died, there was a fleeting moment of unity amongst people of all political stripes that this was a terrible injustice by the police.
Fleeting, but it was there…and I am telling you, it is because of the look on Derek Chauvin’s face while he has his knee on Floyd.
Do you really believe that Whitfield’s death would have been buried if at occurred in October 2020 rather than in April 2022?
My guess is there’s just a bit of exhaustion in regards to this right now.
You don’t think the Dems didn’t have had a political “use” for Whitfield’s death this year?
A year where the GOP was once again running on law and order?
I am giving you, IMHO, a far more plausible reason why Floyd’s death sparked what might be considered singular outrage.
Not everything is some Lib Globalist conspiracy.
I have seen no mention of criminal charges in the case. The family has filed a civil suit.
Five police officers and one trainee responded. I have seen no mention of their races.
The five Indianapolis Metropolitan Police patrol officers and one recruit trainee who responded to the home that night were identified as the following: Steven Sanchez, more than two years on the force; Adam Ahmad, two and a half years of experience, Matthew Virt, nearly three years experience; Dominique Clark, just under six years on the force; Jordan Bull, seven and a half years; and Nicholas Mathew, seven months on the force.
What, cause there were no BLM protests when a Dem was in the White House ? What about Ferguson ?
Biden’s advisors: “Hmmmmm… He’ll still vote in 2024 so it’s mox nix.”
People can’t look up protests in 2021?
I could not see exactly how much he struggled, from what little I saw it looked like the cops had few choices
Restraint should not be fatal. I thought that was the whole point of the federal case related to the George Floyd death.
Should there be similar charges in the Whitfield case?
There is a risk of death with surgery.
It does not mean the surgeon is racist, not tht he had any other choice.
There is a risk of killing your children every time you put them in the car.
—>There is a risk of death in resisting police.<—
There is a risk of death every time the police restrain a man.
From what I could see, there was no better less risky way to restrain that man.
Oops, he should nt have resisted.
