Four former mall guards were charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2014 death of McKenzie Cochran, a then-25-year-old Black man.
In this June 10, 2020 file photo demonstrators gather at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, Mich.Almost a decade after the incident, a judge decided Wednesday that the case of four former mall security guardsMcKenzie Cochran was 25 years old when he died in January 2014 while restrained on the floor of a jewelry store at a local mall in Southfield, Michigan.
The four suspects appeared in court Wednesday. They will appear again in court for a pretrial hearing, but a date has not yet been set.On Jan. 28, 2014, Cochran reportedly told the owner of a jewelry store in the Detroit-area mall that "he wanted to kill someone," according to the attorney general's office.
"Video evidence shows Cochran remained face down with his arms under his body while the five security guards restrained him. Witnesses at the mall, and subsequent interviews with the guards involved, reported hearing Cochran say he couldn't breathe during the restraint," according to the attorney general's office.
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