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. NY Post Reporter Jesse O'neill shares this story.
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!”
Read more at https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/us-news/kenneth-knotts-yelled-i-cant-breathe-before-police-homicide/
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