On the 19^th of June, video footage of a police officer kneeling on the
neck a cuffed Roma man named Stanislav Tomáš in the City of Teplice,
Czech Republic, was published. Although the original video was removed,
various media outletsreposted
<https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EtUffFxfeuY&feature=emb_title>parts of it
the next day. Tomáš’s death, as well as the footage portraying the
police’s brutal use of violence during the arrest, outraged Roma
communities in Europe. Kneeling on a person’s neck, a practice
implemented by police officers across the world, has in the recent
period become a symbol of police brutality and has started many
conversations on the intertwined nature of police violence and racism.
Furthermore, while reporting on the incident, some media and NGOs still
do not mention the name of the departed Tomáš while
underliningsimilarities
<https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/22/death-of-romany-man-knelt-on-by-czech-police-compared-to-george-floyd>with
theGeorge Floyd Case
<https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-impact-george-floyds-death-minneapolis/story?id=70999322>.
Therefore, we ask: Does the oppression of Roma need to be told as part
of another narrative in order to trigger empathy and solidarity? Why
does the Czech society keep thinking of and treating its citizens of
Roma origin as the Other and finally, which socio-political mechanisms
are hindering the access of Roma to justice?
https://lefteast.org/justice-catching-last-breath-stanislav-tomas-say-his-name/
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