The authorities of his state are conducting an investigation into the circumstances of the death of a 53-year-old man while he was in custody Ohio.
According to Sky News, o Frank Tyson he died during his arrest by the police Bo Sonege and Camden Birch in Canton, Ohio, in the early evening of April 18th.
The local police department released footage captured by officers’ uniform cameras. In the material in question, which has caused reactions, the arrested person is heard repeatedly saying the phrase “I cant breathewhile the two police officers arrest him and handcuff him. At one point, one of them appears kneeling on the 53-year-old’s back.
Tyson then stops talking and, nearly five minutes later, an officer finds that he has no pulse. When the ambulance called by the police finally arrives, the man is already dead.
“They’re trying to kill me”
Frank Tyson had allegedly fled the bar where he was arrested after car accident in which he was involved.
In the video released to the public, he is seen resisting arrest, shouting that they are “trying to kill him”. “Call the sheriff,” he shouts over and over as the officers tell him to calm down and arrest him.
The officers tackle Tyson to the ground, with one of them putting his knee in his back for about thirty seconds before finally removing it. Tyson says once more that he can’t breathe before he finally shuts up.
At 8.29pm, Tyson is on the floor and footage shows officers searching his wallet for ID and talking to other people in the bar. More than five minutes pass before another officer returns to ask if the detainee is breathing. The policeman checks his pulse and disappears from view once more. At 20:37, a police officer asks again if Tyson has a pulse, after he does not answer them. They begin CPR until an ambulance arrives.
Both officers have since been placed on paid leave. Just two weeks earlier, Tyson had been released from prison after serving a 24-year sentence, his niece told News 5 Cleveland. He said they had planned to meet – but didn’t manage to do so before she died.
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