8 White Cops Murdered a Handcuffed Black Man Lying on His Stomach by Piling On Him, Suffocating Him to Death in a Grocery Store to Force Compliance w/Arkansas Shoplifting Law & Authority

1 COMMAND AFTER ANOTHER LED TO MURDER IN A LEGAL SYSTEM ANCHORED BY PHYSICAL VIOLENCE. From [HERE] and [FTP] As he begged police to stop using a Taser on him on a supermarket’s floor, Lionel Morris’s cries echoed through the produce section of the store in Conway, Ark., for 6½ minutes. Body camera and surveillance footage from that fateful day on February 4, 2020 has just been released this week showing this man’s final moments alive. Morris took the last breaths he would ever take with multiple police officer combat boots and a knee on his back.

Morris had run from officers on Feb. 4 and then placed one officer in a chokehold and tried to pulled out a knife, according to police, after the supermarket had reported him for removing a drone from its packaging. But as an officer had his knee on the 39-year-old’s back inside Harps Food Store, Morris, handcuffed and lying face down, repeatedly offered a succinct and familiar plea: “I can’t breathe.”

“If you can talk, you can breathe. Chill out,” replied the officer, according to body-cam footage released by the Conway Police Department on Wednesday. “We got an ambulance. "

Minutes later, Morris was “pulseless and unresponsive” when medical personnel arrived. He was pronounced dead while being transported to the hospital.

On Wednesday, the officers involved in Morris’s death were cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the Arkansas State Police and prosecutors. That decision came the same day that police released edited body-cam and security footage that illustrated a chaotic incident in which Morris seemingly made clear repeatedly that he was in medical distress. The story was first reported by KTVH.

“After a thorough review, the prosecutor determined there was no evidence of any criminal wrongdoing by the Conway Police Department or the Conway police officers involved in this unfortunate incident,” Conway Police Chief William Tapley said in a recorded statement.

The medical examiner concluded that Morris died of “methamphetamine intoxication with a combination of exertion, struggle, restraint and conducted electrical weapon deployment,” according to a letter from prosecuting attorney Carol Crews. To explain his death in custody, Tapley pointed to the toxicology report’s findings that Morris had substances including methamphetamine, morphine, amphetamine, opiates and cannabinoids in his system. Meaning that if the white cops had piled on top of the average Olympic athlete death probably would not have resulted.

“The level of drugs Mr. Morris had in his system and the strain he exerted while struggling with police ultimately contributed to his death,” he said.

ALL LAWS ARE COMMANDS BACKED BY THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE & THAT IS WHY THE FORCE CONTINUUM CANNOT BE REFORMED. Michael Huemer explains, "One can choose not to pay a fine, one can choose to drive without a license, and one can even choose not to walk to a police car to be taken away. But one cannot choose not to be subjected to physical force if the agents of the state decide to impose it. Thus, the legal system is founded on intentional, harmful coercion. To justify a law, one must justify imposition of that law on the population through a threat of harm, including the coercive imposition of actual harm on those who are caught violating the law."

The February remarks from the Conway officer preceded similar comments made by Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes in late May. In response to Floyd’s pleas of “I can’t breathe,” Chauvin, who is charged with murder in Floyd’s death, said, “Takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to say that.”

Conway Mayor Bart Castleberry said Wednesday that he had ordered the body-cam footage of at least eight officers to be released to the public. The mayor said he instructed Tapley to place some of the officers involved in the incident on paid leave until the department’s ongoing internal investigation has concluded. It’s unclear how many officers have been placed on leave.

At 4:25 p.m. on Feb. 4, police received a call about an alleged shoplifting in progress at a Harps Food Store. When police made contact with Brandy Arnold and Morris — who had given the officers a fake name — the officers found a drone that had been removed from its packaging, Tapley said. When officers arrived at the store, Morris and a woman who was with him, initially complied with officers. When the employee brought over the drone box Morris had allegedly opened, he asked them to throw it in the cart with the rest of his groceries and he would purchase it. He told them that the box was already opened and he planned on purchasing the drone.

While Arnold was arrested without resistance, Morris began to sprint down the aisle, sparking a police footrace through the supermarket.

As police caught Morris in the produce section of the store, they demanded that he submit to arrest nearly 40 times during the 6½-minute struggle, Tapley said. Police used a Taser on Morris “multiple times,” including when he was on the ground. One officer acknowledged punching Morris two to four times in the back and elbow “in an attempt to gain compliance,” according to KTVH.

“Give me your f---ing hands!” one of the officers said to Morris, threatening to break his wrists.

Morris repeatedly told police he was in medical distress.

“Oh my God, oh my God! Please help me, please!” he yelled. “Help me please! Somebody help me!”

Police claimed that at one point during the struggle, Tapley said Morris reached for a knife clipped to his pocket, and that an officer gained control of it and threw it to a “safe location.” It is unclear in the edited video released Wednesday when the knife appeared or when it was tossed. White police also claimed that sometime during that conflict, Morris allegedly placed an officer in a chokehold, Tapley said.

Additional white officers arrived placing their knees and feet on Morris’s back, body-cam footage shows at least one officer pressing both hands against his head and neck as he’s on the ground. Three or four of the cops are white women. The video speaks for itself for those who have eyes to see - this man was no threat to these hyped up yurugu cops. The Black man instinctively pulls away from being struck and strangled and the cops appear to use this situation to justify apply more and more force regardless of its consequences. After he is handcuffed laying face down in the aisle the white cops appear completely calm as they intentionally apply pressure. The white woman presses her weight onto his face and neck area mushing him against the floor while he is saying ”I can’t breathe.” After he is completely subdued the gang of white cops keeps him laying on his stomach while the stand around grinning and cracking smiles and jokes amongst each other - the Black man is still saying “I can’t breathe.”

According to FUNKTIONARY: Yurugu - a mythological figure within the Dogon tribe (Africa) who is "the incomplete being" (fiend without a face) referring to Neuropeans (neurotic Europeans) within the European asili. 2) a regressive (degenerative) state of consciousness where the soul is cut off from itself. 3) the inability to recognize or abate unacknowledged destructive capabilities. Yurugu also expresses itself and manifests as the pathological condition that utterly fails to convince those in geographical proximity of its harmlessness, therefore has to kill them. Yurugu is in a vicious spiral increasingly at odds with his own humanity—as fragmented, pathological, and distorted as it is.

Throughout the incident, Morris told police that he feared something was wrong with his heart, and implored the officers to call an ambulance. The officers had made a call for emergency medical services for Morris before he was arrested, Tapley said. While police say that Morris was put into a recovery position once he started vomiting, that is not shown in the footage.

At the time of the incident, police said Morris reportedly stopped breathing sometime after he was handcuffed, reported the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

“There are some behaviors that must change,” Conway Mayor Castleberry said in a video statement Wednesday . “There is no place for racism in the city of Conway…It’s time to have hard conversations.”

The video below shows what happens to people who open a box in a grocery store in the land of the free.