Michigan AG Office to Review Racially-Charged Cold Case

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has agreed to review an old case involving the death of a black man at the hands of private security officers.

25-year-old McKenzie Cochran died in 2014 after he was pinned to the floor of the Northland Mall in Southfield.

As in the recent death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, video shows Cochran complaining that he couldn’t breathe. An autopsy placed the cause of death as compression asphyxiation.

At the time, Oakland County authorities declined to prosecute the white security officers, saying they were poorly trained, and lacked the intent to cause Cochran’s death.