![In Ohio, an African-American man suffocated under the knee of a police officer, four years after George Floyd (Photo of Franck Tyson during his arrest which cost him his life) In Ohio, an African-American man suffocated under the knee of a police officer, four years after George Floyd (Photo of Franck Tyson during his arrest which cost him his life)](https://huffpost-focus.sirius.press/2024/04/27/5/0/491/276/320/180/60/0/947f0e8_1714230687923-capture-d-a-cran-2024-04-27-171056.png)
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In Ohio, an African-American man suffocated under the knee of a police officer, four years after George Floyd (Photo of Franck Tyson during his arrest which cost him his life)
UNITED STATES – History repeats itself, again. An African-American man suffocated to death under the knee of a police officer during a brutal arrest in the state of Ohio. If the death took place on April 18, most of the English-speaking media have only been talking about it in recent days, particularly in light of the video of the arrest filmed by the police. A story that inevitably echoes the death of George Floyd in 2020, under the same conditions.
As explained HuffPost US, Franck Tyson, aged 53, recently released from prison was on parole; he was suspected of being involved in a traffic accident. On April 18, in his car, he hit and tore off an electrical pole before stopping on the side of the road to run and take refuge in a veterans’ bar. The police found him there, very agitated.
Six minutes to realize the death of Franck Tyson
“ They’re trying to kill me “, he shouted in particular, overturning a stool, while customers tried to calm him down. A heavy-handed arrest then follows. Franck Tyson is seized by the agents before being put on the ground and immobilized. A little more than a minute into the struggle, one officer pressed his knee into his back, while another handcuffed him.
“ I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe », he then repeats several times. “ Are you doing well. Shut up », replied one of the officers. The man then remains motionless, face down, while the agents interact with the bar’s customers. After six minutes, one of the police officers finally speaks to him again to ask him if he has calmed down. Except that Franck Tyson doesn’t respond.
The officer then takes his pulse and begins to give him cardiac massage until doctors arrive, about 10 minutes later. In vain, since he was finally pronounced dead at the hospital an hour after his arrest.
” I can not breathe “the words of the struggle
The two officers involved, Beau Schoenegge and Camden Burch, have been placed on administrative leave, the department said. The case has been turned over to the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) to conduct an independent investigation into the death.
“I would like to express my deepest sympathy to Mr. Tyson’s loved onessaid Canton Police Chief John Gabbard. Based on my experience, I am confident that the BCI will conduct a very thorough review. »
” I can not breathe “. Before losing consciousness and dying, George Floyd, also a black man in his forties, had repeatedly uttered these words while pleading with the white police officer who knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. He received 22 and a half years in prison for murder. Before him in 2014, the same heartbreaking words from Eric Garner, a black American who died of asphyxiation during his arrest by the police in New York, in July 2014. These words have since become an anthem against police violence and blunders towards people black people in the United States.
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