Statist Filth: poLICE laughed and joked as he lost consciousness in handcuffs. Minutes later, he died.

He asked the police for help. They told him to stay on the ground, where he was handcuffed and writhing. He said he was afraid the officers would kill him. They told him to relax. He asked for help again. They kept him pinned, his face in the grass, a knee on his back. He asked again.

Then Tony Timpa went unconscious. In less than 20 minutes he was dead.

The group of Dallas police officers detaining Timpa didn’t seem to notice he was dying in front of them. They didn’t check whether he was breathing, and they didn’t look for a pulse. Instead, the officers laughed. They mocked the way he had squirmed around, clearly in distress — “like a roly poly,” one said. They speculated about what sort of mental illness he might have, or what drugs he might have taken.

When Timpa stopped responding, the officers apparently assumed he was asleep. They kept laughing, making jokes about waking him up for school. They tapped him, shook him, but he didn’t answer. “What happened?” one officer asked.

“I don’t know, he just got quiet,” another responded.

“Just, bloop,” chimed in a third.

Timpa’s last minutes alive were made public in a disturbing video obtained and published by the Dallas Morning News and NBC5, the result of a years-long legal battle for access to records related to the 32-year-old’s death in police custody on Aug. 10, 2016.

The video, released Tuesday, challenged previous police claims that Timpa was aggressive and that they used only the force necessary to prevent him from rolling into a busy street. The footage also provides the clearest picture yet of that night three years ago, when Timpa called 911 asking for help.

The case has dogged the department and angered the city since the Morning News broke the story two years ago. Dallas police declined to comment on the newly released video.

“Because there is pending litigation surrounding this incident, we are unable to comment on the actions of the officers,” department spokesman Carlos Almeida told The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/01/police-laughed-joked-he-lost-consciousness-handcuffs-minutes-later-he-died/?noredirect=on

Statist Filth: poLICE laughed and joked as he lost consciousness in handcuffs. Minutes later, he died.

Statist Filth: poLICE laughed and joked as he lost consciousness in handcuffs. Minutes later, he died.

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