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...after incident likened to George Floyd
From the article-
Black Lives Matter asked that 'all law enforcement DO NOT attend a police Brutality and culture protest that you have contributed to'
The Allentown Police Department on Monday released nearly nine minutes of surveillance footage showing officers subduing a man outside a local hospital Saturday evening.
The group, Black Lives Matter to Lehigh Valley, and Ben Crump, the attorney representing George Floyd’s family, had shared a video over the weekend they claim showed the same incident.
They claimed an officer could be seen in that video holding his knee on a man’s neck outside the Sacred Heart Campus of St. Luke's Hospital. The video recorded before 7 p.m. from a passerby’s vehicle drew comparisons to the infamous viral video showing Floyd before his death in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25 that sparked a nationwide reckoning against racial injustice and police brutality.
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Allentown police release 9 minutes of surveillance video, BLM tells cops 'DO NOT' attend protest after incident likened to George Floyd
From the article-
Black Lives Matter asked that 'all law enforcement DO NOT attend a police Brutality and culture protest that you have contributed to'
The Allentown Police Department on Monday released nearly nine minutes of surveillance footage showing officers subduing a man outside a local hospital Saturday evening.
The group, Black Lives Matter to Lehigh Valley, and Ben Crump, the attorney representing George Floyd’s family, had shared a video over the weekend they claim showed the same incident.
They claimed an officer could be seen in that video holding his knee on a man’s neck outside the Sacred Heart Campus of St. Luke's Hospital. The video recorded before 7 p.m. from a passerby’s vehicle drew comparisons to the infamous viral video showing Floyd before his death in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25 that sparked a nationwide reckoning against racial injustice and police brutality.
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Allentown police release 9 minutes of surveillance video, BLM tells cops 'DO NOT' attend protest after incident likened to George Floyd
