The Roma George Floyd. That’s what some are calling Stanislav Tomas, who died after police in the town of Teplice knelt on his neck during an incident last week. “They’re smothering him,” a bystander can be heard saying in a video of the arrest doing the rounds on social media. Tomas, a 46-year-old supermarket security guard, died in an ambulance following what activists believe was a wrongful arrest. They note that the Roma people face widespread discrimination and brutality in much of Europe. Police say the man died of intoxication, not from being pinned by the officers.
