The heads of four different Miami-Dade police agencies, the Miami-Dade Mayor and activists all blasted the actions of Minneapolis police officers on Friday after the death of a man who was in custody and on the same day that one officer was…
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The heads of four different Miami-Dade police agencies, the Miami-Dade Mayor and activists all blasted the actions of Minneapolis police officers on Friday after the death of a man who was in custody and on the same day that one officer was arrested for murder in that case.
There were strong words inside a gathering at The Circle of Friendship organization in Northwest Miami-Dade where speakers also included Sybrina Fulton, the mother of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot on Feb.26th of 2012 by neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman. Zimmerman claimed self-defense and was acquitted at his trial.
Fulton said “If you have a heart beating in your body then you have to know this was somebody else’s child,” she said about the incident in which 46-year-old George Floyd died while pleading he could not breathe and while an officer was captured on video using his knee to press his neck. That officer was arrested on Friday and charged with murder.
Fulton said, “How would you feel if someone put a knee on your neck.
