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(graphic video, no sound for first minute) White Medical Examiner, White Police Chief, White District Attorney & White Mayor All Uphold the Decisions of White Police Officers to Ignore Dying Black Man in Custody [MORE ] . From [HERE ] The assistant medical examiner (a white man) whose ruling was changed in the Derek Williams death resigned - last month with no notice to the public. Williams is the Black man who died in the back of a police squad car in the summer of 2011. During his arrest police officers crushed him - they ended up on top of Williams with him facing down - the officer then put his knee in his back according to the report of Milwaukee police Detective Luke O'Day, who interviewed the officers involved. Williams then suffocated to death while handcuffed, naked from a strip search, in the back of a police car. He repeatedly told officers he couldn't breathe for at least 15 minutes between the time of his arrest and his death. On the video the officers repeatedly ignore him as he suffocated to death.
Williams first complained as he laid facedown, Officer Ticcioni pressing a knee across his back, O'Day's report says. "As soon as he released pressure, Williams began squirming, as if trying to break free, and reached around his right side to his right waistband (while still in handcuffs)," according to the report. Ticcioni worried that Williams was trying to grab a gun and "reapplied pressure with his right knee to prevent any further movement from the suspect," the report says. Officers then searched Williams. No gun was found.
They got him to his feet, and "Williams immediately went limp," the report says. Ticcioni "laid him on the ground on his back and observed that he was breathing hard." [MORE ] The officers then literally pulled him to his feet and carried him to the cruiser with his feet dragging on the ground. Once in the cruiser the video begins. [MORE ]
Dr. Christopher Poulos said Williams died of natural causes.