A video seen by The Local shows an English-speaking suspected shoplifter being tackled to the ground and placed in a chokehold, screaming "I can't breathe". According to American writer Ben, who recorded the video, the incident occurred at around noon on Friday at a Rewe store in Neukölln. Ben told The Local that Rewe staff had accused the man of shoplifting and took his backpack before he then left the store. This man and another man then restrain the suspect on the ground, one of them using a chokehold. Ben told The Local that the suspected shoplifter sounded as though he was American from the way he spoke English.

Source: The Local July 24, 2017 11:48 UTC