“I can’t breathe.”
5 min readMay 27, 2020
“I can’t breathe.”
That’s the words a man said loud enough to be caught on video in Minnesota.
One story on the incident started this way — “A man exclaiming “I can’t breathe” as a Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the ground and put his knee on the man’s neck for about eight minutes died Monday night…” ( Source)
“I can’t breathe.”
Three words. I wonder how many us can’t breathe right now. Not in a literal way. But for this man, and for so many others, it is literal. And not breathing is costly. It cost him his…