I Can’t Breathe

Cops love murdering people by asphyxiation, whether that’s by strangling them, choking them out, closing off their airways, kneeling or sitting on them so they can’t breathe, or restraining them in such a way that they cannot get sufficient oxygen (this is called “positional asphyxia”, as any experienced kinky person could tell you).  The reason is simple:  even an obedient lap-dog of a medical examiner might find it difficult to explain away multiple bullet wounds in the back or facial contusions so severe they render the victim unrecognizable, but oxygen deprivation often leaves no marks and can therefore be hand-waved away as heart failure, the effects of “illegal” drugs, or the result of an imaginary condition called “excited delirium” that exists only in police reports.  But unfortunately for cops, ubiquitous video recorders have captured many of them in the act of committing such murders, and “I can’t breathe” has been the last words of many people since Eric Garner, and countless people before him.  But up until recently the pig-loving mainstream media have ignored these atrocities; perhaps that’s starting to change:

In Columbus, Georgia, a 300-pound [pig] sat on Hector Arreola’s back while another held a knee to his neck and kept him face down…until he…died.  In Phoenix, four [pigs] placed the weight of their bodies on Muhammad Abdul Muhaymin’s head, neck, back and limbs as he lay face-down and handcuffed before going into cardiac arrest and dying.  Three [pigs] in Aurora, Colorado, tackled Elijah McClain as he walked home with groceries…strangl[ing him]…and handcuffing him as he pleaded and vomited.  He was removed from life support days later.  In all three cases, the unarmed men uttered the same phrase as police [murdered] them…“I can’t breathe”…The phrase has become an international rallying cry against police brutality after the high-profile deaths of Eric Garner in 2014 and George Floyd on Memorial Day.  But, across the country, dozens of people have died in police custody under similar circumstances.  USA Today examined 32 fatal police encounters since 2010 in which victims said they couldn’t breathe while being restrained…At least 134 people have died in police custody from “asphyxia/restraint” in the past decade alone…That…is likely an undercount…Some cases, like that of 18-year-old Nicholas Dyksma, involved the same knee-to-neck hold that killed [George] Floyd…In virtually every case, the officers involved [were rewarded for the murders with paid vacations]…

But please, keep telling me how society can’t survive without roving gangs of deranged thugs wandering around looking for excuses to summarily execute people who pose no danger to anyone.  Or better yet, tell Alesia Thomas, Jonathan Andrew Salcido, David Smith, Roy Nelson Jr, Hector Arreola, Craig McKinnis, Ben Anthony C de Baca…