RICHMOND, Va. – One man died a decade ago after a police officer in New York state told him to move his illegally parked car.
Another, in the midst of a mental health crisis on a Virginia highway, was fatally shot by an officer in 2018. A third man died in Oklahoma the next year after a foot chase and struggle with police.
His last words echoed the ones used by Black men in similar circumstances and the chants at civil rights protests: “I can’t breathe.”The officers involved in the deaths of Danroy “DJ” Henry Jr., 20, Marcus-David Peters, 24, and Derrick Elliot Scott, 41, all were cleared of wrongdoing.