Olayemi Olurin, a staff attorney with The Legal Aid Society’s Queens Trial Office, was featured in a video piece by Brut America exploring a January incident in which her client and biker Sircarlyle Arnold was pinned down and knelt on by an officer in an illegal chokehold. Despite NYPD bodycam footage showing officers stepping on Sircarlyle’s neck, the Queens’ DA refused to prosecute the officers involved.

Olurin described the shocking incident, that “so clearly mirrored exactly what we had just seen in George Floyd” months before, underlining the point that this is a routine occurrence among communities of color.

“It wasn’t the police brutality of it all that shocked me. I’m accustomed to that,” Olurin said. “But it was just…the audacity of it, that they knew all these people were screaming ‘your knee is on his neck, your knee is on his neck,’ repeatedly…They know they’re being recorded. They see all of these people recording them, and they wouldn’t stop.”

Watch the full piece below.