“I can’t breathe”, were Frank Tyson’s last words.
Just a black Ohio man released from prison Frank Tyson53, died at the hands of police officers who came to arrest him in the small town of Canton, Ohio last Thursday.
The state prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into the case and the two white police officers who made the arrest have been relieved of duty for the time being, the news channel says CBS News.
The police arrested Tyson, who was suspected of a traffic violation, in a bar, pinned him to the floor and handcuffed him. The events were recorded on the police’s overall camera.
of Canton according to the police department’s press release, after the arrest, the officers tried to revive Tyson and he was given naloxone, which is used as a rescue drug in opioid overdose, before the arrival of the emergency team. Tyson was officially pronounced dead at the hospital less than an hour after his arrest.
Tyson’s last words “I can’t breathe” remind me George Floydin death in custody in Minneapolis four years ago. The police who pushed Floyd to the ground with his knee Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder.
The case sparked widespread protests in the United States and brought the Black Lives Matter movement, founded in 2013, back into the headlines.
Tyson crashed his car into a lamp post in Canton at eight o’clock in the evening on Thursday of last week. The police patrol that arrived on the scene found him in a bar operating in the premises of the veterans’ association Amvets. The waiter asked the police to take Tyson away quickly.
Tyson, pinned to the ground, screams “they’re killing me” and “call the sheriff” several times in the video. The cop puts a knee on his back, after which Tyson says he can’t breathe.
After five minutes, one of the officers asked if Tyson had “calmed down”. A resuscitation attempt began after this.
CBS:n on April 6, Tyson was released from prison, where he had served a 24-year sentence for kidnapping and theft. According to the parole authorities, he had neglected his obligation to register.
News agency AP published an extensive report last month that found that more than a thousand people arrested in the US have died in custody as a result of police actions that were not intended to kill the suspect.