*Video footage was recently released, showing the final moments of 35-year-old Michael Sabbie’s life before he died in Bi State Jail earlier this year.
According to reports, the father of four was in custody for 48-hours on a domestic assault charge and he was pepper-sprayed by guards, which seemed to trigger a severe reaction. He repeatedly begged the guards to get him help, as he told them, “I can’t breathe, sir. Please! Please!”
Instead of taking his cries for help serious, the guards laid him on the cell floor overnight. The following morning he was found dead, and his death was initially ruled as “natural” by a medical examiner.
Erik J. Heipt, an attorney representing the Sabbie family, is bringing up the video as evidence that Michael possibly died as a result of the pepper spray incident. “If you just looked at the cause of death, you would think that Michael died of some sort of hypertensive heart condition, and that may be true. But if we didn’t have a video, we’d never know that he had been begging for help due to his shortness of breath and inability to breathe. We’d never know that he said ‘I can’t breathe’ 19 times in the nine minutes that we hear in that video.”
Peep the video below:
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“African people have received no direct attention from Obama,” he says.
During the conversation, Dr. Johnson said that he feels like if Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he too would criticize Obama. He used King’s quote about the system using black faces to hide racist agenda of the system to prove his point.
To hear more of what Dr. Umar Johnson had to say, including his thoughts on Pras donating $1.2 million to a Super PAC to back Obama, watch the clip below.
