A newly released bodycam footage from an arrest in Oklahoma City shows a suspect saying “I can’t breathe” before he died. The video was released this week by the Oklahoma City Police Department at the request of Black Lives Matter.
In the May 20, 2019 footage, 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 could be heard saying, “I can’t breathe” multiple times while officers continued to issue orders for him to get his hands behind his back and to take his hands out of his pocket.
A third officer, Sgt. Jennifer Titus, then arrived at the scene and helped search Scott.
The officers repeat several times that Scott was pretending to be unconscious, but they call medics to the scene. At one point, a medic picked him up and someone in the background yelled for him to “stop fighting.”
Scott was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. 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, asthma, emphysema and heart disease.
His manner of death was listed as “undetermined.”
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