'I can't breathe': Viral video shows White Texas cop Conner Martin pin down Black teen Nekia Trigg
Conner Martin, a white male sheriff's deputy in Texas, was placed on leave after a video surfaced on Facebook which showed him laying on top of a crying Black teenage girl named Nekia Trigg as she vomited and said, "I can't breathe."
The seven-minute video was posted on Wednesday, July 28, on Facebook, after which the Kaufman County, Texas sheriff's department identified the police officer as Conner Martin and the 18-year-old African-American teen as Trigg. Several local residents called the police after Trigg was seen jumping in front of cars in traffic in Forney, Texas, possibly in a suicidal manner. In the video, Martin was seen laying on top of Trigg, and the women surrounding the two were heard screaming.
What happened in the video?
Antanique Ray, 41, who is Trigg's mother was heard telling Martin, "You don't have to ever hit her, okay? She will stay down." Martin responded saying, "You need to back up. You need to back up." After Ray lightly touches Martin's hand, holding her daughter's wrist, Martin yelled at her saying, "Do not touch me! Back up! Back up!"
Trigg's mother touches the cop's hand
"Just calm down," Ray told him as the officer lay back down on top of Trigg. One woman in the vicinity is heard saying Trigg's name and telling her, "Just calm down." Another person exclaims, "It's 102 degrees out here." While being pinned to the ground by Martin, Trigg says, "I can't breathe," the same words iconically spoken by George Floyd, a black man who was killed by ex-Minnesota cop Derek Chauvin last year. At one point during the video, Trigg vomits. The camera then zooms in to capture the watery vomit coating Trigg's right cheek as she gasps for breath. She is then instructed by Martin and another cop to roll over. The teen cries as she is handcuffed.
At this point, Ray then screams at Martin, telling him "I need your f*cking badge number and your name." Noticing Martin's body camera is not on his shirt, she asks him why his bodycam was not in the right place when he was pinning her daughter. As the officers walk Trigg towards a patrol car, Martin yells, "Let go of her!" twice before tackling Ray to the ground. Ray is arrested and one of the officers threatens bystanders with a Taser. While laying in the middle of the street, Ray says, "All I did was ask you to loosen the handcuffs on her," adding that she did not touch them. The girl recording the video says, "You got seven police out here, for three little Black girls." According to the Dallas Morning News, Trigg was taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation while Ray was charged with assault of a public servant and interference with public duties.
Conner Martin suspended
After the video went viral, the sheriff's office in Kaufman County was bombarded with calls, requesting the deputy in question be fired, WFAA reported. This caused the office to open an investigation into Martin and placed him on administrative leave. The sheriff's office also released unedited body camera footage of the incident, along with 911 calls. According to the police footage, Martin's body camera fell off as he struggled to contain Trigg. It showed the early stages of the incident when the deputy confronts Trigg.
"What's wrong? How come you're crying," Martin says at the start of the video. When he puts his hand on Trigg's shoulder, and grabs the teenager's arm, she says, "I don't want you to hurt me." Martin then says, "If you keep pulling away I got a put you in handcuffs though." Before his bodycam fell off, he is heard trying to calm her as Trigg says that he was already hurting her.
3 comments:
Just more of the same Bullshit.
He is White and his "victim" is Black so he is obviously guilty of something.
Bob Walsh
Where is the video of this young girl running into traffic? Running into traffic is jaywalking and jaywalking is against the law and a ticket is issued if the officer actually sees WITH HIS OWN EYES a person breaking the jaywalking law or a video shows it. The U. S. Constitution Amendment VI states "the accused is to informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him." Where are at least TWO witnesses who claim they saw this young law-abiding girl shown on video walking on the sidewalk and where are their sworn statements under penalty of perjury. The following people have been charged with making false 911 calls, called Swatting: Tyler Barriss, serving a 20-year-prison sentence for a false call that led to the shooting death of an innocent person, Louis Segna, found guilty in Brooklyn, NY Supreme Court for false 911 calls, and Patricia Garcia of Houston Tx in prison now for false 911 calls and she said that she was not in her right mind when she made those calls.At least Derek Chauvin never abused an innocent young girl shown on video walking on the sidewalk and obeying all laws. All the people that Chauvin knelt on had witnesses who appeared on video, and giving their names, to claim, of someone breaking some law. For instance, that 14-year-old boy whom Chauvin knelt on and hit on the head, making him bleed and his mother had to tell Chauvin, "Don't kill my son." had called 911 on her own son. The following articles let us know that innocent Nekia Trigg would have died if her mother had not appeared about 2 and a half minutes after Martin starting lying down upon her pressing hard upon her lungs and breathing muscles. These articles, which were written by experts on the topic are "Sudden Death During Restraint" from Medicine, Science and the Law (April 1, 2008) and "A Dangerous Myth: Does Speaking Imply Breathing?" from Annals of Internal Medicine, Nov. 3, 2020. The latter article includes the words; "recognizing earlier signs of respiratory failure such as an increased respiratory rate" The video clearly shows Nekia gasping for breath at 60 shallow gasps per minute (normal is 12-22) which shows that she was about to die from respiratory failure. The National IOnstitute of Mental Health, the CDC, and the Annals of Internal Medicine list the methods of suicide as swallowing an overdose of pills or poisons, jumping from a height like the roof of a building, self-hangings, or use of firearms. There is no record of anyone attempting suicide by running in front of a slow-moving car in a residential neighborhood which would only injure but not kill. The video clearly Deputy Martin still pressing hard upon the young girl and grinding his private parts into her and he did not stop after the senior deputy touched Martin on his/above his belt. Martin did not stop when the senior deputy touched him around his shoulder, but just looked up at the deputy. Martin did not stop when the White woman reached out her hand seemingly touching Martin and saying something to him and he shook his head to signify, "No." If Nekia was ever suicidal, why has she NEVER swallowed poisons, or jumped from a high place?
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