In November 2022, Kenneth Knotts died after going unresponsive while in police custody. This is bodycam footage of the incident

The medical examiner reportedly ruled the cops were responsible for Knott's death after seeing the footage and ruling the man died of sudden cardiac arrest after being restrained in a “semi-prone position,” which is a homicide. Officials had previously said the cause of death couldn't be determined.

Texas man yelled ‘I can’t breathe’ before being killed in police custody, body cam video shows

A man died in police custody at a Dallas hospital in 2022 after he was denied water and restrained by multiple hospital cops while pleading “I can’t breathe,” bodycam footage released Tuesday showed.

The disturbing incident, which was ruled a homicide, came after Kenneth Knotts, 41, had been taken by police for a mental health evaluation at UT Southwestern Medical Center following a traffic stop on Nov. 29, 2022.

“The guy was in mental distress, clearly he was irrational, but you don’t have to kill them to solve what is absolutely a medical problem,” family lawyer Geoff Henley told The Dallas Morning News.

As at least three officers from the UT Southwestern Medical Center Police Department pushed on his back, Knotts screamed and convulsed before falling silent, the footage, published by the paper, showed.

Moments later, a medical staffer screamed, “No pulse! No pulse!”

The footage was obtained by Henley through a third-party subpoena from the city of Dallas, according to the report.

The hospital declined to release the footage or identify the cops involved and had not previously disclosed the death, according to the newspaper.

read and see more here:  https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/us-news/kenneth-knotts-yelled-i-cant-breathe-before-police-homicide/

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