‘I can’t breathe’ – Bodycam captured last moments of another handcuffed black man suffocating under the weight of Ohio police during arrest

Footage from police bodycam released Wednesday captured the final words of handcuffed Frank Tyson as police knelt on his back, ignoring his complaints of impending asphyxia

Frank E Tyson, 53, died in police custody an hour after being arrested face down on the floor of a social club in Canton, Ohio on Thursday, April 18

Tyson allegedly left scene of a crash which involved a single car that had severed a utility pole around 8pm on Thursday

Arresting officers Beau Schoenegge and Camden Burch, both white, were placed on leave with the AG’s office saying a grand jury will decide if charges will be preferred  

In the bodycam footage released April 24, officers from the Canton Police Dept. grabbed Frank Tyson. He was taken to the floor and restrained, with a knee on his back. He immediately told officers ‘I Can’t breathe’ as he resisted being handcuffed. Tyson can be heard saying repeatedly, ‘They’re trying to kill me’ and ‘Call the sheriff’

A police bodycam has captured the final words of handcuffed black man who died in Canton, Ohio after police knelt on his back during an arrest.
Frank E Tyson, 53, died in police custody after being arrested face down on the floor of a social club last week Thursday.
Recently released police bodycam footage has now revealed that a restrained Tyson was telling the officers piled on his back as he lay on his face on the floor: ‘I can’t breathe,’ ‘I can’t breathe,’ mirroring the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis cops which led to worldwide wave of protests against race tinged police brutality, back in 2020.

The bodycam video of Tyson’s arrest was released on Wednesday and shows officers responding to a report of a crash and Tyson, from East Canton, Ohio, by a bar in a nearby American Veterans, [AMVETS], post. 
The crash that happened around 8pm on April 18, involved a single car that destroyed a utility pole. 
A passing motorist directed police to the bar after the driver allegedly, fled the scene of the crash.

Killed: This still, taken from Canton Police body camera video, shows the confrontation between Frank Tyson and the responding officers on Thursday, April 18, 2024, in Canton, Ohio. He was dead shortly after

Body-camera footage from one of the pair arresting officers, Beau Schoenegge, shows a woman opening the door to the venue, who said: ‘Please get him out of here, now.’
Police grabbed Tyson, and he resisted being handcuffed and said repeatedly, ‘They’re trying to kill me’ and ‘Call the sheriff,’ as he was taken to the floor.
They restrained Tyson with one cop pinning the prone suspect with a knee on his back, who immediately told the officers he could not breathe. In response they told Tyson who was face down with his legs crossed on the carpeted floor that he was ‘fine, to calm down and to stop fighting’.
As the officers employed the prone restraint, a subjugation method which the US Department of Justice has warned police not to use since the mid-1990 because of the danger of positional asphyxia, they joked with bystanders, leafing through Tyson’s wallet before realizing he was in a medical crisis.

Footage reveals Frank Tyson was telling officers: ‘I can’t breathe,’ mirroring the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis cops which led to worldwide wave of protests against race tinged police brutality, back in 2020

Five minutes after the body-camera footage recorded Tyson saying ‘I can’t breathe,’ one of the officers asked his colleague if Tyson had calmed down. The other replied, ‘He might be out.’ 
The video shows that Tyson did not move when an officer told him to stand and tried to roll him over. That’s when the officers shook the cuffed man and checked for a pulse.
Minutes later, after an officer is heard saying medics needed to ‘step it up’ because Tyson was not responding and they were unsure if there was a pulse, they began CPR.
The Canton police report about Tyson’s death was issued Friday states, ‘shortly after securing him,’ officers ‘recognized that Tyson had become unresponsive’ and that CPR was performed. Doses of Narcan were also administered before medics arrived. Tyson was pronounced dead at a hospital less than an hour later.

Ignoring his saying he was asphyxiating, officers told Tyson ‘you’re fine, calm down, stop fighting.’ Tyson was face down with his legs crossed on the carpeted floor, as the officers were joking with bystanders and leafing through his wallet. They realized he was in a medical crisis, it was too late

Chief investigator Harry Campbell with the Stark County Coroner’s Office said Thursday that an autopsy was conducted earlier in the week and Tyson’s remains were released to a funeral home.
However, the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation said in a statement Thursday that its probe will not determine if force was justified, adding that either the prosecuting attorney or a grand jury will decide if charges related to the use of force are warranted.

Five minutes after Tyson is heard saying ‘I can’t breathe’, one cop asked if Tyson had calmed down. His colleague replies, ‘He might be out’. An hour later he was dead. However, Canton police official version states ‘shortly after securing him,’ officers ‘recognized that Tyson had become unresponsive. CPR was performed and Narcan administered before medics arrived‘

Frank Tyson was killed 13 days after he was paroled.
He was released from state prison on April 6, after serving 24 years on a kidnapping and theft case.
Tyson’s family have called the video ‘nonsense’. ‘It just seemed like forever that they finally checked him,’ his niece Jasmine Tyson told WEWS-TV.
The arrest team who are attached to the traffic bureau, Beau Schoenegge and Camden Burch, both white, were placed on leave, according to the Canton Police Department.