William Ahmo uttered the words “I can’t breathe” more than 20 times while officers swarmed and restrained him in a Manitoba jail, video footage of his final hours at the Headingley Correctional Centre shows.
The video footage, shot on a handheld camera inside the jail more than two years ago, was shown in a Winnipeg courtroom last week during the first day of a trial for the corrections officer who faces charges in Ahmo’s death.
Absolutely. It’s infuriating to me.
Incarceration leaves people with no meaningful control over their health and safety, so either end all incarceration or provide for inmates’ health and safety. At a minimum, guards and wardens should be investigated, probably fired and prosecuted, every time an inmate dies of anything but old age.