“We’ve known, on our own skin, what police brutality feels like and we can’t be silent on this issue,” the group told BuzzFeed News.
Alexander Sofeev / Via Courtesy of Pussy Riot
Masha Alekhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova, the two best-known members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, have released a new video, their first in English, called "I Can't Breathe." The song is dedicated to victims of police brutality and features a dramatic reading of the last words of Eric Garner, the man whose chokehold death at the hands of a New York police officer set off mass protests last year.
The video opens with a close-up of a package of Russian Spring cigarettes, a brand name that plays on pro-Russian sentiment in war-torn Ukraine. Then it shows the two women being buried alive while wearing Russian riot police uniforms.
"Illegal violence in the name of the state kills not only its victims, but those who are chosen to carry out these actions," the group told BuzzFeed News in an e-mailed statement. "Policemen, soldiers, agents, they become hostages and are buried with those they kill, both figuratively and literally."
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