VIDEO. “I can’t breathe”: crushed by a police officer’s knee, the terrible images of the fatal arrest of Franck Tyson

Les images de l'arrestation de Franck Tyson. Capture X CBSMornings

La police américaine a arrêté Franck Tyson, un Afro-Américain de 53 ans, le 18 avril 2024 dans l’Ohio. Mais lors de l’intervention, l’homme est mort.

Facts reminiscent of the George Floyd affair. On April 18, the police responded to a road accident and decided to arrest Franck Tyson. But the 53-year-old African-American died during this arrest, indicates the CBS News channel. Footage of this was only recently revealed showing a scene similar to that of 2020, when George Floyd died.

"You're on my neck"

Franck Tyson tore down a utility pole with his car during a road accident in Canton, Ohio, when he had just gotten out a short while ago prison and was on parole, specifies France Info.

The suspect then found refuge in a bar and that's where the police intervened, finding him quite agitated, as visible in the images filmed by the camera worn by one of the police officers.

Newly-released police body cam video shows the death of Frank Tyson, a Black man, after he was arrested on April 18 in Canton, Ohio.

In the video, one police officer appears to have his knee on Tyson’s back after a struggle. Tyson repeatedly tells them, “I can’t breathe.” pic.twitter.com/gqwe6aPBSz

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While a woman asked the officers to remove him from the establishment, he was pinned to the ground, handcuffed and violently arrested. An officer then places his knee in the victim's neck. "You're on my neck. I can't breathe, I can't breathe& nbsp;! ", he exclaims. A few minutes later, Franck Tyson is no longer moving. Despite cardiac massage, he was pronounced dead an hour later at the hospital.

Beau Schoenegge and Camden Burch, the two responding officers have since been placed on administrative leave and the Ohio Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) has opened an independent investigation into know the exact circumstances of this affair, relates France Info.

These facts recall the case of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American, who also died during his arrest in May 2020 in Minneapolis. 60~em>"I can’t breathe" ("I can’t breathe"), he said, crushed by agent Derek Chauvin. The police officer was sentenced the following year to 22 and a half years in prison for murder.