THIS is the terrifying second a police officer chokes a suspected telephone thief to loss of life as onlookers beg him to cease.

The 58-year-old Spanish cop was out for dinner with a buddy on Tuesday when the alleged thief stole his telephone in northeastern Madrid.

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Disturbing footage exhibits the second the off-duty officer chased the suspect down the road then slammed him to the bottom and held him in a chokehold.

In a determined try and cease him from killing the alleged thief, locals are heard calling: “please let him breathe”.

“You are going to suffocate the man, man. Let go of his neck,” one shouts.

One other will be heard saying: “He is not going to run away. Simply let him go.”

Ignoring their pleas, the officer continues to press down on the person’s neck earlier than police and paramedics arrived on the scene.

However regardless of medics’ try at saving him, he was quickly pronounced useless after affected by cardia arrest.

Emergency providers confirmed in a press release {that a} 36-year-old man had died of asphyxiation regardless of half-hour desperately making an attempt to resuscitate the person.

Officers arrested the unnamed cop who appeared in court docket as we speak.

The devastating incident has sparked outrage in Spain, with some drawing comparisons to the killing of George Floyd in 2020 who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for 9 minutes.

Sharing their horror on-line, one particular person posted: ”I can not breathe.’ These had been the phrases George Floyd uttered minutes earlier than his loss of life when a New York police officer killed him by asphyxiation.”

One other wrote: “Murdering an individual for a easy telephone. An off-duty municipal police officer suffocates an individual.

“That is how the capitalist world is, a phone is price greater than an individual’s life. What a disgusting society!”

Spain‘s progressive celebration Más Madrid additionally weighed in, calling the assault a mirrored image of how “institutional racism” and “abuse of energy” are normalized.

A spokesperson mentioned: “Two cops, who had been apparently drunk, have murdered an individual in Torrejón. T

“This displays how institutional racism and abuse of energy are normalized, even exterior of working hours.

“We demand an instantaneous investigation into this alleged homicide as a consequence of asphyxiation brought on by a police officer in Torrejón.”

This is not the primary time a case like this has taken place in Madrid.

In 2018, protests erupted within the metropolis after a Senegalese vendor was shot useless within the Italian metropolis of Florence.

Some 19 protesters and 10 cops had been injured as clashes unfold throughout the town.

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