We watch it in deadly videos, see it on t-shirts and spray-painted walls, but I heard the phrase “I can’t breathe” in another terrible way, from the lips of victims of COVID-19, shortly before the virus claimed their lives.

As a New York City paramedic…

Read more from Professor Contreras, ‘I can’t breathe’: A plea that resonates in policing reform and vigilance against the coronavirus in the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS JUNE 19, 2020