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.

  • ickplant@lemmy.world
    162·
    6 months ago

    Are you too young to remember the Rodney King protests? They literally had to call in the Marines and the Army to quell them. That was in 1991, and a result of police brutality against an unarmed Black man.

    Edit: Wanted to add that police in general came from slave patrols. It was a racist institution designed to instill terror into people of color from the very beginning. It was never about “serving and protecting.”

    • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      6 months ago

      I was a kid back then, but even i had no idea of the background leading to the riots. Like how the group that beat King were part of a gang that was on a mission to beat black men, or the unrelated (except by racism) widely publicized trial verdicts where multiple white citizens were found not guilty or given light sentences for killing black kids (I’ve forgotten a lot of the details of the documentary, but ill never forget the shocked faces of the parents of a kid shot by a convenience store clerk after her community service verdict). The righteous anger had been boiling over all year, and King was just the final straw.

      And nothing has changed for the better in all this time

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
      31·
      6 months ago

      Yes, I was a baby in 1991. I don’t have data, but I’ve heard anecdotes from former police officers that police training has changed significantly since the 80s.

      It’s definitely become much more militarized.

      • ickplant@lemmy.world
        61·
        6 months ago

        I don’t disagree with that, but it would be false to say that police brutality directed at people of color is a new thing. That’s always been there.

        • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 months ago

          I never said police violence directed at people of color was a new thing.

          My point, which I think wasn’t very clear bcz I worded it poorly is that police are trained to draw their guns immediately today and shoot to kill. That didn’t used to be the case.

      • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        The militarization accelerated due to events where the police took an ass whoopin like the North Hollywood bank robbery.