{"id":358967,"date":"2018-04-29T17:21:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T16:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/video-shows-police-attacking-former-nfl-player-in-atlanta-parking-lot\/"},"modified":"2018-04-29T17:21:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T16:21:57","slug":"video-shows-police-attacking-former-nfl-player-in-atlanta-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/video-shows-police-attacking-former-nfl-player-in-atlanta-parking-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows police attacking former NFL player in Atlanta parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Video shows police attacking former NFL player in Atlanta parking lot<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alec Andersen<br \/>\n    <br \/>28 April 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lWlEO3KkBXQ\">video<\/a> posted Thursday to Facebook and Instagram of police in an Atlanta, Georgia suburb attacking and choking former National Football League (NFL) player Desmond Marrow has sparked widespread outrage on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Marrow, a 30-year-old African-American father of one, was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted defensive back in 2012 and spent a year with the team. He also played for the Houston Texans and in the Canadian Football League.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, two Henry County police officers can be seen dragging Marrow and slamming him against a pickup truck in a Target store parking lot in McDonough, a town located southeast of Atlanta. He repeatedly pleads with the officers, \u201cI\u2019m not even doin\u2019 nothing. I\u2019m not even fightin\u2019 back. I\u2019m not even fightin\u2019 back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the cops, identified in a police report as Officer Donaldson, suddenly grabs Marrow\u2019s right leg and pulls it up into the air, then body slams Marrow face-first into the asphalt. Marrow begins to cry in agony, saying, \u201cOh my god. I didn\u2019t even do nothing. I didn\u2019t even do nothing to y\u2019all man!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He repeats this several times, crying and screaming in agony before yelling, \u201cYou set me on my mofuckin\u2019 head!\u201d At that point, a third officer joins to hold Marrow down as one of the others, identified as D. Rose, forcefully presses his hand on Marrow\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n<p>As he chokes and struggles for breath, Marrow can be heard several times telling officers, \u201cI can\u2019t breathe,\u201d in a scene reminiscent of the 2014 police murder of Eric Garner in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Marrow\u2019s body then goes completely limp and he appears to fall unconscious. After a few seconds, Rose slowly removes&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/04\/28\/marr-a28.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Video shows police attacking former NFL player in Atlanta parking lot By Alec Andersen 28 April 2018 A video posted Thursday to Facebook and Instagram of police in an Atlanta, Georgia suburb attacking and choking former National Football League (NFL) player Desmond Marrow has sparked widespread outrage on social media. Marrow, a 30-year-old African-American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}