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The cop pressed his knees against the black man's neck: Had ten complaints against him

The american officer who in nine minutes pressed his knee against an unarmed black man's neck, so that he subsequently died, had numerous complaints on him alr

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The cop pressed his knees against the black man's neck: Had ten complaints against him

The american officer who in nine minutes pressed his knee against an unarmed black man's neck, so that he subsequently died, had numerous complaints on him already.

It writes several american media, who have gained an insight into small town history of complaints.

on Monday night, police were in the city of Minneapolis called out to a forfalskningssag in a grocery store. The incident developed into a dramatic arrest where a white cop held an unarmed man on the ground by pressing his knee against the man's neck.

the Man, the 46-year-old George Floyd, said repeatedly that he could not get the air and later died at the hospital.

His death has been violent protests to break out in the land, and a total of four involved officers were on Tuesday sacked.

the FBI investigating this matter, and now it turns out that the longtime officer Derek Chauvin has at least 10 complaints against him.


44-year-old Derek Chauvin started his career in the police in October 2001. Five years later, in 2006, he and five other officers involved in the killing of a man who was suspected to have stabbed his girlfriend with a knife.

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According to the NBC News moved the police at the time out for a review about that a man had stabbed his friend and the girlfriend down and threatened to shoot them.

the Man fled out of the house with the police in hot pursuit. When he subsequently stepped forward in front of his car with a shotgun on himself, responded to the police by shooting him several times.

the Case was investigated by an independent politiklagemyndighed in the UNITED states, as it was not clear whether the man had made threats like that, it was never cleared up, who of the officers who had fired the fatal shots.


In 2008, Derek Chauvin awarded a hædersmedalje for its 'response in an incident that involved an armed man', where Derek Chauvin shot the offender twice in the stomach.

Tou Thao, another of the now-fired officers have been involved in cases of police brutality.

In 2014, a man filed suit against the Tou Thao for having assaulted him when he was walking on the street with his pregnant girlfriend. Thao and his colleague 'slapped, kicked and gave a knee in the head on the man as well as of his body', says in court documents from that time. It writes The Guardian.

According to The Daily Beast was the man who brought the case, unarmed, when he was forced to the ground and handcuffed.

George Floyd and his last words have been to hashtagget #ICantBreathe, which is used together with the well-known slogan 'black lives matter'.

the Mayor of the city has responded to George Floyd's death, which he calls 'simply terrible' and 'wrong in all ways'.

- Why is the man who killed George Floyd, not in prison? If you had done it, or I had done it, we would be behind bars right now, said the mayor at a news conference on Wednesday.

the UNITED states'president, Donald Trump, have asked the authorities to investigate the matter.

At my request, the FBI and the justice department is already in full swing with a study of George Floyd's tragic death. I have asked that the investigation will be handled quickly, and I appreciate very much the work done by local police, wrote Trump on Thursday on Twitter.

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