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Behind the Aegis

(53,956 posts)
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 02:37 AM Jun 2020

'I can't breathe,' Oklahoma man tells police before dying. 'I don't care,' officer responds.

Newly released body camera footage from an arrest in Oklahoma City last year shows a suspect saying “I can’t 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 can’t breathe.

“I don’t 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.

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His manner of death was listed as “undetermined.”

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'I can't breathe,' Oklahoma man tells police before dying. 'I don't care,' officer responds. (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jun 2020 OP
KR Cha Jun 2020 #1
He had asthma. I knew it. He probably had an asthma inhaler somewhere on his person. Maraya1969 Jun 2020 #2
And treat him like a human being? That's against police policy. John Fante Jun 2020 #3
Pretty sure an inhaler quakerboy Jun 2020 #6
Wouldn't have helped a pneumothorax, which was probably caused by trauma elias7 Jun 2020 #11
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Jun 2020 #4
OMG, how can these people sleep at night? secondwind Jun 2020 #5
The cop is probably a Stormfront member. Crowman2009 Jun 2020 #8
The Ku Cops Klan (n/t) Hav Jun 2020 #10
More from your link UpInArms Jun 2020 #7
Another murder because the system protects racist pigs Hav Jun 2020 #9
Sick fuck Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 #12
Depraved Indifference, Sir, Out Of The Killer's Own Mouth The Magistrate Jun 2020 #13

Maraya1969

(22,479 posts)
2. He had asthma. I knew it. He probably had an asthma inhaler somewhere on his person.
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 04:07 AM
Jun 2020

They could have let him take a couple puffs right there.

Crowman2009

(2,495 posts)
8. The cop is probably a Stormfront member.
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 05:33 AM
Jun 2020

Why the hell hasn't the media mentioned that a lot of these racist cops are members of white supremacists websites?

UpInArms

(51,283 posts)
7. More from your link
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 05:24 AM
Jun 2020
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.

Hav

(5,969 posts)
9. Another murder because the system protects racist pigs
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 05:42 AM
Jun 2020

Of course, they were cleared of any wrongdoing. They get to keep their jobs with the license and approval to kill more. Those sick fucks should have lost their jobs on the spot and put behind bars.
How many more need to get murdered because the criminals are the ones in uniform?

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