Four of the country’s leading civil rights lawyers have joined resources to fight for justice for the family of a deceased Alabama man, who lost his life in a police-involved altercation. The team is calling for the Mobile Police Department to release footage of the unarmed 36-year-old Black man allegedly screaming before his premature demise, “I can’t breathe. I don’t want to be George Floyd.”
Jawan Dallas died on July 2 after police officers approached him after receiving a complaint about a possible burglary attempt in a trailer park, according to a report. Mobile police who responded to the call reportedly saw two men in a car parked a short distance from the complainant’s trailer. When Dallas, the driver, was asked to get out of the car he complied and then bolted, police claim.
“While attempting to identify one of the males, he immediately attempted to flee. The officers tried to apprehend the individual, and he physically resisted,” the police report said, adding, “During the struggle, an officer used his Taser to gain compliance from the subject.”
Officers used their stun guns multiple times on Dallas as they tackled and struggled with him. Police claim he attempted to grab the Taser from one cop but was unsuccessful. At some point after Dallas was handcuffed he was observed to be in medical distress, upon which EMTs were called and he was taken a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The couple who reported a suspicious man on the property would later insist that Dallas was not the person they saw, adding he was about 200 yards away from the home.
“That wasn’t the guy. That wasn’t the guy that I called for. I called for a guy breaking in and coming onto my property,” one unidentified member of the couple said to local station WALA in July, adding, “That man begged him to stop. Just kept hitting him, just on top of him, pounding on him. It’s just not right. What they done was wrong.”
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