The United States police are once again in the spotlight for a new case of alleged police abuse with racist component. In recent days, a video has come to light of the arrest of Frank Tyson, a 58-year-old African-American who died after being subdued by the Ohio Police on April 18, in a bar in the town of Canton.
The images, recorded by a camera located on the uniform of one of the officers involved, show how the police enter the premises and Tyson is forcibly reducedwho repeatedly shouts “they’re trying to kill me.”
The police officers, with their knee on the man’s neck, yell at him not to resist. In the video you can hear how Tyson tells them “I can’t breathe”reminding too much of the case of George Floyd which unleashed an unprecedented anti-racist movement.
Officers Beau Schoenegge and Camden Burch have been temporarily suspended while the investigation progresses, as well as a legal process to verify that the use of force caused the man’s death.
The events occurred when the man entered the bar, after having crashed his car into a light pole. The officers followed him after allegedly fleeing the scene and proceeded to arrest him. However, during the dispute he stopped breathing and eight minutes after saying his last words, they tried to perform lung resuscitation on him, according to reports. SkyNews.
Tyson was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead and in police report It is reported that “shortly after immobilizing him” the agents “realized that he was not responding” to resuscitation attempts.
Likewise, the victim’s niece told News 5 Cleveland that her uncle had gotten out of jail just two weeks earlier after serving a 24-year prison sentence.
