WATCH | Visual investigation into how US police killed South African Lindani Myeni 26 May 2021 - 14:25
Three officers from the Honolulu police department in Hawaii, US, killed 29-year-old South African rugby player Lindani Myeni on April 14. The police released body camera footage and the 911 emergency call.
As part of our visual investigation series, we overlaid and matched the available body camera footage and audio of the night Myeni was killed. The visual investigation uncovered disturbing but important real time facts as we reconstructed the events which led to his death. However, there are still questions outstanding which might never be answered about that evening when the father of two was killed.
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By Xin Ping Published: May 26, 2021 08:06 PM
A visitor attends the free public art exhibit Justice for George: Messages from the People at Phelps Field Park near George Floyd Memorial Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the US. Photo: AFPMay 25 marks the first anniversary of George Floyd s murder. A long and painful year passed, yet what has and has not changed in the US?
The unprecedented mass protests Black Lives Matter last year have driven the Biden administration to pledge to overhaul American policing laws. To make a gesture, President Biden called on the Congress to pass a major police reform bill ahead of this year s anniversary. While congressional negotiations are still in the process and far from yielding any concrete results, the Floyd tragedy keeps repeating itself across the nation. Lindani Myeni s death last month, for instance, has triggered the outrage of another country.