French Court Convicts 3 Police Officers Involved in 2015 Black Man’s Death

A French court has convicted three police officers of manslaughter in the 2015 death of a black man in Paris.

Each received a 15-month suspended sentence from the court.

Amadou Koume, 33, died after being pinned to the ground and choked by officers in a bar.

Koume was then left on his stomach for more than six minutes, his hands cuffed behind his back.

The examining magistrate notes “the lack of discernment” of the officials who kept him on the ground for more than six minutes on his stomach, hands handcuffed behind his back, in a bar, when it “no longer presented any danger to others” in the order for reference consulted by AFP.

According to the police, Koume was clearly under the influence of a psychotic crisis when he was taken to the police station on the night of March 6, 2015.

However, after the final medical examination, it was determined that he died of “pulmonary edema” caused by “a combination of slow mechanical asphyxia and cocaine intoxication.”

According to AFP, the magistrate added that “cervical and laryngeal trauma” caused by a strangulation key “participated in the occurrence of this asphyxia,” which was also “favored” by its immobilization on the ground.

According to the reference order issued on November 2, “the death could have occurred without the impregnation of cocaine and solely due to slow mechanical asphyxiation.”

The magistrate, on the other hand, accuses the three cops of failing to check on Koumé’s health “despite his psychiatric vulnerability.”

She holds them accountable for “failures” that resulted in the death, thus justifying their trial for “manslaughter.”

The prosecutions for failing to assist a person in danger have been dropped.

However, the officer defended himself before the examining magistrate by citing the urgency of the situation in the face of a “very significant risk” that Mr. Koumé, endowed with “Herculean strength,” seizes one of his colleagues’ weapons.

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