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Another dramatic death in the USA. Police in Canton, Ohio, released officer-camera video recorded the night a 53-year-old black man died following repeatedly telling officers “I can’t breathe” while handcuffed with his hands behind his back. back and pinned to the ground. The story is reminiscent in many points of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. In the video from April 18, the man, Frank Tyson, is motionless on the floor of a bar for more than 5 minutes before the police check him the pulse and approximately 8 minutes before resuscitation is started.

In the almost 36-minute long video, police are seen responding to the scene of a car accident where they find a downed electricity pole and an unoccupied vehicle with the driver’s door open and an activated airbag. A man in a white van, whose face is blurred, passes by and tells police that the man responsible is at a lodge down the road. The officers enter the club and a woman asks them to take Tyson away. When the deputies approach him, she knocks over a bar stool and tells them to call the sheriff. Then they try to handcuff him.

Police identified Beau Schoenegge and Camden Burch as the “two lead officers” who responded to the call. The footage was captured by Schoenegge’s camera. “They’re trying to kill me,” Tyson says. “They’re trying to kill me.” Tyson shouts “Call the sheriff” several times and continues to say: “They’re trying to kill me.” Once Tyson is handcuffed, one of the officers appears to place his knee on the man’s upper body, while Tyson says “I can’t breathe” several times. An officer tells him to calm down and stop fighting. Tyson replies: «I can’t breathe. I can not breathe. You’re on my neck.” According to the video, the officer held his knee on Tyson for regarding 30 seconds. County police highlighted that shortly following handcuffing him, officers saw that Tyson was unresponsive.

Newly-released police body cam video shows the death of Frank Tyson, a Black man, following he was arrested on April 18 in Canton, Ohio.

In the video, one police officer appears to have his knee on Tyson’s back following a struggle. Tyson repeatedly tells them, “I can’t breathe.” pic.twitter.com/gqwe6aPBSz

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