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The official declaration confirms what all could see in the video. Irvo, while facedown and handcuffed at his wrists and shackled at his ankles, was not permitted to breathe. For over 11 minutes, the ten officer/hospital defendants pushed down hard on every part of Irvo’s body until he was limp and lifeless, we cannot continue to treat the mentally ill with such brutality. – Ben Crump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What kind of sickness would make men pile on a man that’s already handcuffed and shackled ? – Al Sharpton	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don’t know if there’s any law that can stop that evil that we saw, what strikes me is just the lack of respect for human life. I don’t know that any law, any training, any reform is gonna change … this man was handcuffed, they continued to beat him. And I was actually reminded, it’s hard to watch the whole thing, but as I watched it, I was reminded, we have a hearing probably two years ago when George Floyd’s brother came and testified before the Judiciary Committee, and it was one of those moments when fact and truth and emotion all came together. – Jim Jordan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's bewildering. It sends a symbolic and inhumane message despite the procedure that is involved, if nobody thought he needed to be handcuffed, then why not just out of respect for the loss of human life, avoid it ? – Bobby DiCello	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We received information about... repeated use of excessive force, often against people who are suspected of minor traffic offenses ; are already handcuffed ; or are not resisting, in some cases, the injuries these individuals suffered were severe, including the death of at least one individual. – Kristen Clarke	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Police just came over and handcuffed me, they told me ‘Don’t try to run away, don’t try to fight with us, don’t do anything stupid.’. – Hasib Qarizada	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is an initial reasonableness in trying to just get George Floyd under control in the first few seconds, but once there was no longer any resistance and clearly when George Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back -- that in no way shape or form is anything that is by policy. It is not part of our training, and it is certainly not part of our ethics or our values. – Medaria Arradondo	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There was never a time when her daughter was with her that she was not locked in a room, bound or handcuffed, there was never an opportunity to take her daughter and run. – Stephen Stubbs	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At the end of the day, he was somewhat handcuffed by the court's orders, he followed the court's order, but I think there was a better way to draw that map to create congressional districts that were more representative of the community, provided for more opportunity for choice… and they just played around the edges and only played in the five towns that were currently split. They just re-split those towns. – Connecticut GOP chairman Ben Proto	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I would never choose to do anything wrong and I never saw myself sitting in the back of a cop car, handcuffed. – Andy Smith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They handcuffed us, instead of defunding us, they handcuffed us and stopped us from being able to do our jobs, and keep people safe in the streets. – Mike Mansanarez	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I was handcuffed and thrown in jail, that took some doin’ … I didn’t wake up one morning, get on my motorcycle and say, ‘I’ll go to jail! – The Boss	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They handcuffed me, drove me to jail, booked me, had me put in a cell. It was awful. It was embarrassing, it makes me feel hopeless, just now feeling like you can get back to providing, get back to normal. – Melissa Henderson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
No 9-year-old should be handcuffed. No 9-year-old should be pepper-sprayed. No one's humanity should be dismissed because of a badge. No human should be treated like this, reform is needed. Reform can come, but only if we are willing to listen to this little girl crying out for the protection that she didn't receive from the Rochester Police. – Lorenzo Napolitano	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There is no reason why a handcuffed person should ever be shot multiple times by a police officer, let alone shot multiple times inside a patrol car. Anything short of that assessment would just demonstrate complete lack of respect for human life. – Deborah Jeon	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was hung (handcuffed and shackled) on a steep X-Cross doing a spread-eagled pose for hours after hours, sometimes, they ordered me to do the 'stress tests', which includes extreme strength exercise such as 'squat' and 'chair pose' for countless hours. They beat me every time I failed to do so using something like sharpened batons. – Simon Cheng	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
As seen in the video she resisted arrest, and in order to have her to comply she was struck in the side to release her clenched fists - she was then handcuffed. – The Coral	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I want answers, you can look at him and tell he no teenager [sic]. Ten years old you get handcuffed? You scarred him for life. – Starr Ramsey	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
He kept saying' test it.' They snatched him out of the car, handcuffed him and banged him around a little bit. – Peter Wright	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I felt helpless as I lay there on the ground handcuffed facing the real-life threat of being killed. All I could think of was 'I'm going to die for no other reason than I am black and my skin color is somehow a threat.'. – Undersheriff Kevin McMahill	Found on CNN 6 years ago
I felt helpless as I lay there on the ground handcuffed facing the real-life threat of being killed. All I could think was ‘I’m going to die for no other reason than I am black and my skin color is somehow a threat.’. – Michael Bennett	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They took me to the hospital, handcuffed me to the bed, i died. I overdosed and died. – Katrina Henry	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
When you look at the act in Gwinnett, Georgia, where the kid is on the ground handcuffed, he's not fighting and the officer runs up and kicks him, [it's] undeniable. – Cedric Alexander	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I don't know why everybody's surprised of Bret Baier lack of discipline. I mean Bret Baier's been out there for 15 months, Bret Baier's completely undisciplined, yet, for about a month Bret Baier's been led around, shackled, handcuffed by Bret Baier staff, made to read from the teleprompter. – Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer	Found on FOX News 7 years ago

The official declaration confirms what all could see in the video. Irvo, while facedown and handcuffed at his wrists and shackled at his ankles, was not permitted to breathe. For over 11 minutes, the ten officer/hospital defendants pushed down hard on every part of Irvo’s body until he was limp and lifeless, we cannot continue to treat the mentally ill with such brutality.

– Ben Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What kind of sickness would make men pile on a man that’s already handcuffed and shackled ?

– Al Sharpton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t know if there’s any law that can stop that evil that we saw, what strikes me is just the lack of respect for human life. I don’t know that any law, any training, any reform is gonna change … this man was handcuffed, they continued to beat him. And I was actually reminded, it’s hard to watch the whole thing, but as I watched it, I was reminded, we have a hearing probably two years ago when George Floyd’s brother came and testified before the Judiciary Committee, and it was one of those moments when fact and truth and emotion all came together.

– Jim Jordan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's bewildering. It sends a symbolic and inhumane message despite the procedure that is involved, if nobody thought he needed to be handcuffed, then why not just out of respect for the loss of human life, avoid it ?

– Bobby DiCello

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We received information about... repeated use of excessive force, often against people who are suspected of minor traffic offenses ; are already handcuffed ; or are not resisting, in some cases, the injuries these individuals suffered were severe, including the death of at least one individual.

– Kristen Clarke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Police just came over and handcuffed me, they told me ‘Don’t try to run away, don’t try to fight with us, don’t do anything stupid.’.

– Hasib Qarizada

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is an initial reasonableness in trying to just get George Floyd under control in the first few seconds, but once there was no longer any resistance and clearly when George Floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back -- that in no way shape or form is anything that is by policy. It is not part of our training, and it is certainly not part of our ethics or our values.

– Medaria Arradondo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There was never a time when her daughter was with her that she was not locked in a room, bound or handcuffed, there was never an opportunity to take her daughter and run.

– Stephen Stubbs

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At the end of the day, he was somewhat handcuffed by the court's orders, he followed the court's order, but I think there was a better way to draw that map to create congressional districts that were more representative of the community, provided for more opportunity for choice… and they just played around the edges and only played in the five towns that were currently split. They just re-split those towns.

– Connecticut GOP chairman Ben Proto

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would never choose to do anything wrong and I never saw myself sitting in the back of a cop car, handcuffed.

– Andy Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They handcuffed us, instead of defunding us, they handcuffed us and stopped us from being able to do our jobs, and keep people safe in the streets.

– Mike Mansanarez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was handcuffed and thrown in jail, that took some doin’ … I didn’t wake up one morning, get on my motorcycle and say, ‘I’ll go to jail!

– The Boss

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They handcuffed me, drove me to jail, booked me, had me put in a cell. It was awful. It was embarrassing, it makes me feel hopeless, just now feeling like you can get back to providing, get back to normal.

– Melissa Henderson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No 9-year-old should be handcuffed. No 9-year-old should be pepper-sprayed. No one's humanity should be dismissed because of a badge. No human should be treated like this, reform is needed. Reform can come, but only if we are willing to listen to this little girl crying out for the protection that she didn't receive from the Rochester Police.

– Lorenzo Napolitano

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There is no reason why a handcuffed person should ever be shot multiple times by a police officer, let alone shot multiple times inside a patrol car. Anything short of that assessment would just demonstrate complete lack of respect for human life.

– Deborah Jeon

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I was hung (handcuffed and shackled) on a steep X-Cross doing a spread-eagled pose for hours after hours, sometimes, they ordered me to do the 'stress tests', which includes extreme strength exercise such as 'squat' and 'chair pose' for countless hours. They beat me every time I failed to do so using something like sharpened batons.

– Simon Cheng

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

As seen in the video she resisted arrest, and in order to have her to comply she was struck in the side to release her clenched fists - she was then handcuffed.

– The Coral

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I want answers, you can look at him and tell he no teenager [sic]. Ten years old you get handcuffed? You scarred him for life.

– Starr Ramsey

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He kept saying' test it.' They snatched him out of the car, handcuffed him and banged him around a little bit.

– Peter Wright

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I felt helpless as I lay there on the ground handcuffed facing the real-life threat of being killed. All I could think of was 'I'm going to die for no other reason than I am black and my skin color is somehow a threat.'.

– Undersheriff Kevin McMahill

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I felt helpless as I lay there on the ground handcuffed facing the real-life threat of being killed. All I could think was ‘I’m going to die for no other reason than I am black and my skin color is somehow a threat.’.

– Michael Bennett

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They took me to the hospital, handcuffed me to the bed, i died. I overdosed and died.

– Katrina Henry

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When you look at the act in Gwinnett, Georgia, where the kid is on the ground handcuffed, he's not fighting and the officer runs up and kicks him, [it's] undeniable.

– Cedric Alexander

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I don't know why everybody's surprised of Bret Baier lack of discipline. I mean Bret Baier's been out there for 15 months, Bret Baier's completely undisciplined, yet, for about a month Bret Baier's been led around, shackled, handcuffed by Bret Baier staff, made to read from the teleprompter.

– Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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