Video Shows 3 White Asheville Cops Attack a Black Man w/a Broken Arm, Pin Him by Holding His Neck Down in the Street, Searching for a Gun He Didn't Have. Liar Cops Then Claim He Assaulted Them
From [HERE] White police officers pinned a Black man by the neck, searching for a gun he did not have, according to video by the man's fiancé.
Members of a May 13 crowd gathered in the Erskine-Walton neighborhood sounded alarmed and shouted for the three or more Asheville Police Department officers to stop as they struggled with Devon Lewis Rayshawn Whitmire on the ground.
One bystander can be heard in the video shouting, "He can't breathe," drawing comparisons by local community activists to high-profile fatal police encounters with other Black men, including George Floyd.
Whitmire, 27, was arrested and charged with multiple counts of assault, including assault on a government official inflicting serious injury. On May 17 he remained in the Buncombe County Detention Facility under an $85,000 bond. His next court date is June 2. [MORE]