Dying Oklahoma man told police “I can’t breathe”
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.
Dying Oklahoma man told police “I can’t breathe” during arrest last year. Officer responded, “I don’t care”
Oklahoma City police have released body-camera videos of an armed black man who died in police custody last year after telling arresting officers “I can’t breathe.” One of the officers can be heard responding, “I don’t care.” The footage of the May 2019 arrest of 42-year-old Derrick Elliot Scott, also known as Derrick Ollie, was released late Monday.
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