"You don't have to be able to breathe."
These are the words spoken by a police officer to William Jennette, a white inmate who died in a Tennessee prison in May of 2020. A video shows Jennette with her face on the ground with several officers on top of him to hunt him screaming 'I can' t breathe ', I can not breathe, which is the same as pronounced by George Floyd just before he died.
To Jennette's plea, a policeman replies: "You mustn't be able to breathe".
A few minutes later Jennette died. The autopsy determined that the man died of asphyxiation and drugs, defining the death as murder The grand jury that was called to examine and rule on the case did not indict any of the officers involved, but now Jennette's daughter has filed a federal-level lawsuit in which he denounced that officers ignored his father's repeated appeals and even mocked him as he pleaded with them, fueling the debate over the police's excessive use of force.
