The moment is chilling: a beefy marine grips, strangles, on the floor, the young black man whom he has reduced in a subway car as it passes through Manhattan. With all his energy—you only have to look at his face—he performs a drowning wrench… further characteristic of a military combat. ‘Help’ by two other men, although the reduced does not seem to put up much resistance and repeatedly asks them to stop. At one point, she seems to start convulsing… And just like that, fifteen minutes.

“That’s what you get for messing it up in the wagon,” they tell him. Then, they try to convince those present: “It’s okay, he’s going to be fine.” Other passengers have explained that the African American had clearly just suffered a mental breakdown: Apparently, he began by throwing his jacket on the ground to beg for alms and ended up rebuking the travelers.

When they arrived, the toilets they couldn’t revive him. Those 15 minutes of strangulation they killed himas they remember with their slogans the protests that take place in their honor in the suburban and the streets of New York.

In fact, the coroner has confirmed in the last few hours that it was a homicide With all the letters. Despite that, whoever killed him (and those who formed a ‘squad’ with him) is free no charges. Officially, awaiting—now, days later—investigation… unofficially, for being a decorated soldier.

“A life taken by a senseless, that of a homeless man with mental health problems” cry some New Yorkers. The big Apple lost thus to this icon of his street life, known michael jackson impersonatorwhich seems to have suffered serious problems after the murder of his mother, perpetrated by his stepfather.

Too much unnecessary loss, say protesters clashing with police, for leave to whom I know take justice into their own hands.