{"id":155651,"date":"2015-06-01T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T20:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=155651"},"modified":"2015-06-01T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T20:01:14","slug":"us-police-officers-not-charged-killing-young-man-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-police-officers-not-charged-killing-young-man-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"US police officers not charged over killing of young man in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>A grand jury in the United States has declined to indict police officers who held a man down with the officers on top of him although he said he could not breathe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thirty-year-old Robert Minjarez Jr. died five days after his arrest outside a gas station in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana last year.<\/p>\n<p>The grand jury issued its decision on Wednesday. The officers&#8217; names have not been released because grand jury proceedings are always secret.<\/p>\n<p>The videos from a nearby store and from police car dashcams show at least three officers remained wholly or partly on top of Minjarez.<\/p>\n<p>The man died because of &#8220;compressional asphyxia due to face-down physical restraint by law enforcement officers,&#8221; according to a report from the Lafayette Parish coroner.<\/p>\n<p>The report says the suspect is heard in the audio pleading for help, saying \u201cI can\u2019t breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For about five minutes, the report said, Minjarez is heard on dashcam audio screaming, &#8220;Help! Help! Help me! Get off! You&#8217;re going to kill me!&#8221; The report also quotes him as saying &#8220;You&#8217;re going to suffocate&#8230;&#8221; and &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe&#8221; three times.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/01\/413793\/US-Louisiana-chockhold-Robert-Minjarez-Jr-grand-jury\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grand jury in the United States has declined to indict police officers who held a man down with the officers on top of him although he said he could not breathe. Thirty-year-old Robert Minjarez Jr. died five days after his arrest outside a gas station in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana last year. The grand jury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-155651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}