In America, in 2020, an incident of apartheid like the murder of black George Floyd by strangulation has once again come to light. Ohio police have released video of a Black man who died at a local hospital. This body cam video shows a Black man with his knee on a Black man’s neck, begging the man to let go and saying, “I can’t breathe.” After this the officers threw him on the floor and tied both his hands behind his back and he died shortly afterwards. The man, identified as 53-year-old Frank Tyson, is accused of fleeing the scene of a car accident on April 18. This video is currently going viral and people are giving different types of reactions on this issue. In the viral video, police can be seen opening his handcuffs and giving him CPR.
What’s in the viral video?
In the video of the incident, Tyson is seen shouting that I can’t breathe, my neck is not moving. Then a policeman gets angry at them and says calm down, you are fine. Tyson struggles to free himself for a while and then his movements stop. The policemen examine him and someone is heard asking, is he breathing? Does he have a pulse?
