Police lied about Tony Timpa's death

No surprise there.

[link:https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2017/09/28/police-responded-911-call-help-died-happened-tony-timpa|
They were putting his life at risk for Restraint Asphyxia. They had to know this. That is what disturbed me most of all.

Then came the attempted cover up. Thankfully his mother was not having any of it.

When Timpa died, there was no shooting to report. His call to 911 was dispatched as a person in need of assistance. There were no reports of a homicide at 1720 W. Mockingbird Lane the night he died. There was no booking report because he never made it to jail.
His mother, Vicki Timpa, said police initially told her that her son had a heart attack at a bar and died. Another officer told her that a policeman wandering down the street found Tony Timpa passed out by his car, and then he died.
Still another officer told her, “Tony called 911, got in an ambulance, waved to the cops and then he collapsed,” she said.
She didn’t believe any of it. She’s seen her son’s body at the morgue -- there was grass in his nose, she said, and bruises on his arms.
A woman at the morgue told Vicki: Call Ambulance 47.


So she called the Dallas Fire-Rescue crew who responded that night after the officers were on the scene. Whoever answered told her: “Ask the police what happened,” then hung up, she said.
Two weeks after her son’s death, Vicki Timpa filed the first request for public records from the Dallas Police Department, scrawling on the form: “I want to know what happened.”

At the same time, an anonymous tipster contacted The News, asking a reporter to look into the death of a man he only knew by first name: Tony.
It took more than a month of searching public records for The News to find Dallas police incident No. 192631-2016: "Sudden Death. Complainant died by unknown means."
The victim was listed as the same person who'd called the police: Anthony Alan Timpa.