What is I can't breathe?
'''I can't breathe''' is a [[slogan]] tied to the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement in the [[United States]]. The phrase comes from the last words of [[Death of Eric Garner|Eric Garner]]. He was an unarmed black man who was killed in 2014 after being put in a chokehold by [[New York City]] [[police officer]]s.<ref>{{cite news|title=Three Words and 70 Cases|work=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/28/us/i-cant-breathe-police-arrest.html|access-date=Sep 2, 2020}}</ref> A number of other black men and women said the phrase. That included [[Killing of George Floyd|George Floyd]], a 46-year-old black man in [[Minneapolis]], Minnesota who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer. The officer had his knee on Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes. The words ''I can't breathe'' have become a protest chant.<ref>{{cite news|title=George Floyd Protesters Lie Down on Main Street in Kansas City and Chant 'I Can't Breathe'|publisher=The Kansas City Star|url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/article243221341.html}}</ref> Floyd told Minneapolis police officers more than 20 times that he couldn't breathe.<ref>{{cite news|title=George Floyd Told Minneapolis Police Officers He Couldn't Breathe More than 20 Times|publisher=Baltimore Sun|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-george-floyd-transcripts-20200708-vdqxef3sezferng3nmuzi4blme-story.html|access-date=Sep 2, 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{commonscat}} {{stub}} [[Category:Police misconduct in the United States]] [[Category:American civil rights]]