Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged four hotel workers in connection with D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death after scouring video showing them piling on top of the Black man during an incident that Mitchell’s family says is disturbingly similar to George Floyd’s death.
Mitchell’s family spent weeks pressuring prosecutors to charge the hotel workers in the June 30 death. District Attorney John Chisholm finally filed a count of being a party to felony murder against each of them on Tuesday.
Here’s what to know about Mitchell’s death and the Hyatt workers, who now face sentences of up to nearly 16 years in prison if they’re convicted.
Except that the guy was actually doing something wrong (he allegedly locked two women in the bathroom with him and then tried to grab them), and wasn’t handcuffed and had been fighting them, and they were holding him down in a way that causes positional asphyxia which a lot of people don’t know about instead of deliberately choking him to death while a crowd of people yelled at them to stop.
Other than that it’s pretty similar