For over five minutes that are excruciating to watch a white Minneapolis police officer presses his knee into the back of the neck of a handcuffed black man lying face down on the street pleading that he can't breathe and calling for his mother until the man eventually dies It's a video that has been seen around the world and is being used as the animating force behind the worst riots and looting this country has seen in decades Hundreds of buildings and businesses in Minneapolis and neighboring St Paul have been damaged pilfered and burned including the Minneapolis Police [... more]