They didn’t want this inquest. Now Abdi’s family is reliving his death every day [Video]

The Abdirahman Abdi inquest is being livestreamed during the day here. 

As Abdirahman Abdi lay limp and handcuffed outside his apartment building, family members looked on in horror from the other side of a lobby window.

His mother, who died this past July, watched as officers crouched by the 38-year-old Somali-Canadian’s body and waited for the ambulance to arrive. 

The youngest among them saw the scene too, “desperately trying to explain Abdirahman’s mental health problems to the police,” the family shared in a statement read out during an ongoing coroner’s inquest.

The mandatory inquest, launched on Nov. 18 and now in its final days, is examining the circumstances of Abdi’s death. A jury of five people, after hearing testimony from more than 20 witnesses, will consider and possibly recommend ways to prevent deaths like his in the future.

Abdi’s mental health unravelled in the months leading to July 2016, when he died a day after the violent police arrest. His …