A grand jury has declined to indict Louisiana police officers who held a man down, with officers on top of him, while he said, “I can’t breathe.”
The Advertiser also quotes the FBI as saying it did not find anything the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Unit could prosecute.
Thirty-year-old Robert Minjarez Jr. was declared dead five days after his arrest by Carencro and Scott police and Lafayette Parish sheriff’s deputies in March 2014.
The coroner’s report says the main cause of death was “compressional asphyxia due to face-down physical restraint by law enforcement officers.”
