INKSTER, MI, USA - A pastor leading a protest on Wednesday outside a Detroit-area police department threatened to shut down the city until two white officers are fired for the bloody arrest of a black man who was pulled from his car and repeatedly punched in the head.
The march in Inkster came a day after television station WDIV aired police video of the January arrest of Floyd Dent, 57.
The video shows an officer punching Dent many times in the head while another officer tries to handcuff the motorist who is on the ground.
Dent’s head and shirt are bloody.
“I’m lucky to be living. I think they was trying to kill me, especially when they had choked me,” Dent told WDIV.
"I mean, I was on my last breath. I kept telling the officer, "Please, I can’t breathe."
Police treatment of black men has become a major issue in the US in the aftermath of killings in Ferguson, Missouri, and in New York City. Inkster, population 25,000, is 73% black.
Source: AP
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