In video of the April 18 encounter, Frank Tyson can be seen lying motionless on the floor of a bar for more than 5 minutes before police check him for a pulse.

In video of the April 18 encounter, Frank Tyson can be seen lying motionless on the floor of a bar for more than 5 minutes before police check him for a pulse.

The Canton Police Department in Ohio has released body camera video from the night a 53-year-old man died after he repeatedly told officers “I can’t breathe” as he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back and he was pinned to the ground.

In video of the encounter on April 18, the man, Frank Tyson, can be seen lying motionless on the floor of a bar for more than 5 minutes before police check him for a pulse and about 8 minutes before CPR is started.

In the nearly 36-minute video, police respond to the scene of a single-car crash to find a downed power pole and an unoccupied vehicle with the driver’s side door open and an airbag deployed.

    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      671·
      8 months ago

      Yeah. The details are in the article. Officer had his knee on the victims upper back for at least 30 seconds while the victim begged the officer to move as he couldn’t breathe. At some point he stopped responding entirely while the officers were holding him. He needed immediate medial attention from the instant he stopped breathing. Instead of helping him officers told him “shut the fuck up you’re fine”. And only after he had stopped moving for 5 minutes did they check and realize he was dead.

      The knee on the upper back position is illegal. The correct thing to do is to have 1 officer hold his shoulders steady and the other hand cuff him. If there’s only 1 officer present (which there never should be), there are many other holds that are not life threatening. I think it’s entirely fair and legitimate to say that they killed him. It’s not libelous, or exaggeration, they killed him and did not seek medical attention when he very clearly stated he wasn’t able to breathe. That’s manslaughter and negligent homicide at least.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      8 months ago

      Its too much to ask for what should be an anti-police story related to them murdering a civilian to not use passive voice to describe the murder.

      • Custodian1623@lemmy.world
        48·
        8 months ago

        Yes because it’s not an anti-police story, it’s a reporting of events with which you can use your brain to reach a conclusion. What you’re describing is better suited for commentary like this thread.

          • Custodian1623@lemmy.world
            23·
            8 months ago

            If you look at the URL the original published headline said ‘alleged murder’, it’s always more passive until something sticks, like a murder charge.

            Edit: NBC is not doing their jobs correctly if they make assumptions about the cause of death. We’ve seen excessive force in similar situations being the direct cause of death but it’s not the job of these news outlets to make assumptions on your behalf. An assumption about something that was likely to have happened is still an assumption.

            If NBC calls it a murder and a report comes out that definitively shows that the death happened concurrently but was not caused by the use of force then NBC is in the shit because they appealed to your emotions instead of reporting the facts.

    • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
      163·
      8 months ago

      Maybe they just don’t like lawsuits? There is a reason the word allegedly is used so often.

    • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
      54·
      8 months ago

      Yeah it’s there some unwritten rule against the press saying they killed him? Only good reason i can think of is they’re still waiting for the autopsy to confirm cause of death.

          • uranibaba@lemmy.world
            10·
            8 months ago

            Perhaps because a court hasn’t ruled on it, they won’t word it that explicitly?

            My best guess is that the new paper could be charged with defamation if the court ruled that the police didn’t kill him and they claimed he did.

            But I’m not a lawyer and have no idea about the law regarding journalism nor its ethics.

      • 100_kg_90_de_belin @feddit.it
        4·
        8 months ago

        Because even though there’s a video showing that a cop killed a man, everybody (even cops) is innocent until proven guilty. Otherwise, you could get into a trial for slander and for having caused distress.