Everyone knows who George Floyd was, yet you won’t hear much about Edward Bronstein, who suffered a nearly identical demise. Bronstein was not a Career Criminal of Color, so his death is of no use to leftists.
The Los Angeles Times describes his fate:
Two years after a man died in police custody after being detained as a DUI suspect, attorneys for his family have obtained a video showing his last moments as California Highway Patrol officers hold him and forcibly draw his blood as he repeatedly tells them, “I can’t breathe.”
Talk about famous last words.
The video may have been taken for training purposes. Authorities had been keeping it hidden, but a judge released it.
On March 31, 2020, 2 months prior to the martyrdom of Saint George Floyd, Bronstein was pulled over for suspected driving under the influence on the 5 Freeway and taken to the Altadena station.
Once there, officers tried to draw his blood to measure Bronstein’s alcohol level. He refused. …
Officers then flip him onto the ground, at which point, he shouts, “I’ll do it willingly! I’ll do it willingly!”
Additional officers then surround him, holding him down with their body weight as he repeatedly shouts in distress. After nearly a minute of being pinned, he says, “I can’t breathe!”
After Bronstein stills, another minute passes and officers continue the blood draw. When they realize he is not responding and they try to revive him, one calls his name and slaps the side of his head while he remains face-down on the ground. Eventually, he is turned over and an officer asks for oxygen and to perform CPR.
Too late. They had been slapping a dead man.
Unlike George Floyd, Bronstein was not killed by fentanyl. It could have been meth though.
A Los Angeles County coroner’s office report declared Bronstein’s cause of death “undetermined.” The agency attributed it to “acute methamphetamine, intoxication during restraint by law enforcement.”
It is not unusual for people high on fentanyl, meth, or similar drugs to die while being restrained by police. Medical experts call this “excited delirium.”
George Floyd’s death led to hundreds of declared riots and $billions in property damage, because it was exploited by the media/Democrats to advance the leftist agenda. Fortunately, Edward Bronstein was white, so his death is unlikely to result in even a single looted store.
On a tip from Wiggins.