Current Events > OK Man To Police Choking Him ''I Can't Breathe'' Officer Responds ''I Don't Care

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/i-can-t-breathe-oklahoma-man-tells-police-dying-i-n1229586

Newly released body camera footage from an arrest in Oklahoma City last year shows a suspect saying I cant breathe before he died at a hospital.

In the May 20, 2019 footage, released this week by the Oklahoma City Police Department, three officers are seen restraining the man, Derrick Scott, 42, who can be heard asking repeatedly for his medicine and saying that he cant breathe.

I dont care, one of the officers, Jarred Tipton, can be heard replying at one point. You can breathe just fine, another officer can be heard saying a couple of minutes later.
Scott, who appears unresponsive several minutes into the footage, was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. An autopsy obtained by NBC News lists his cause of death as a collapsed lung.
The incident began after officers were called to an area south of downtown Oklahoma City shortly before 2 p.m. after someone reported that a black man was arguing with people and brandishing a gun, Oklahoma City police Capt. Larry Withrow said in a statement.
The footage shows Scott running from officers after Tipton asks if he has any weapons. After the police tackle and restrain him, one of the officers can be seen removing a handgun from Scotts pocket.
Later, an officer tries to administer CPR before paramedics arrive.
The autopsy said the police response did not result in fatal trauma and listed several other significant factors that contributed to his death, including physical restraint, recent methamphetamine use, asthma, emphysema and heart disease.
His manner of death was listed as undetermined.
Winthrow said an investigation into the incident by the Oklahoma County District Attorneys Office cleared the three officers Tipton, Ashley Copeland and Sgt. Jennifer Titus of misconduct.
Winthrow attributed Tiptons comments to the heat of a conflict.
Certainly that may be something an officer says, he told NBC affiliate KFOR. Just understand the officers are fighting with someone at that point.
But local activists and Scotts relatives have challenged authorities. Scotts uncle, Ronald Scott, told KFOR that he was bothered by how they treated his life.
There is a lack of a focus on humanity and civility, added Rev. T. Sheri Dickerson, of Black Lives Matter OKC. Authorities released the footage after the group included it in a list of demands to city leaders after protests over the death of George Floyd earlier this month.

Fuck that. If as an officer you say you "Don't care" that someone can't breathe then you're unfit for duty and should be fired, and in this case charged with a crime, at a minimum criminal negligence in this case.

Also its no wonder the piece of shit officer thought it was okay to say something like that if that's the level of accountability he is held to by his superiors.

They don't care.

It is the system at work.

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Cops are C students who peaked in HS and need validation.

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The Police Union needs to be ripped to shreds.
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iF yOu CaN tAlK yoU CaN BrEaTHe

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That is some real cold hearted shit right there

TheVipaGTS posted...

Cops are C students who peaked in HS and need validation.

They became cops because it was the first word of the farthest letter in their ABCs that they knew

On drugs, threatening people with a gun, running from police Lack of focus on humanity and civility Well, that kind of describes him as well. He shouldnt have died of course but these standard textbook quotes are pretty silly.
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Police should be required to spend a month in prison and pass a compassion test to be able to serve

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OgesMC posted...

On drugs, threatening people with a gun, running from police Lack of focus on humanity and civility Well, that kind of describes him as well. He shouldnt have died of course but these standard textbook quotes are pretty silly.

Police officers should hold themselves and be held to a higher standard than the citizenry.

Also just because your (opponent) engages in unsavory action or behaviors doesn't suddenly make it okay for you to lower yourself to their level

MachineJaipur posted...

Police officers should hold themselves and be held to a higher standard than the citizenry.

Also just because your (opponent) engages in unsavory action or behaviors doesn't suddenly make it okay for you to lower yourself to their level

Seriously we have a judicial branch. Its fucked up but its a step better than the cop being the enforcer and the excecutioner

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AFrench2 posted...

They don't care.

It is the system at work.

Well at least they were honest.

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Anticyclonic posted...

Well at least they were honest.

Should be fired tbh

MachineJaipur posted...

Should be fired tbh

More than fired, should be charged.

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There's a line in The Dark Knight which I highly disagree

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More racist cops smh

But guys it's just a couple of bad cops and rare incidents

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