A homeless person drowned in the United States under the eyes of police officers who did not help himaccording to images and a transcript published Monday by authorities.
The agents were called on May 28 at dawn near the artificial lake in Tempe, Arizona, due to the “noise” caused by the man who later died and his partner. After talking with the couple, the police approached the homeless man, Sean Bickings, 34, for questioning in turn, according to a statement from the city.
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After a few minutes, Bickings jumped over the fence that protects the lake and went down to the surface of the water.
The agents told him that he did not have the right to swim in the lake, but the 30-year-old swam to an area under a bridge anyway. The footage was then cut short, as the city deemed the rest of the video too “sensitive,” but they provided an audio transcript.
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💬”Senin peşinden atlamayacağım”
🇺🇸✖️ABD’nin Arizona eyaletinde 3 ırkçı polis, göle girdikten sonra boğulan Sean Bickings’in yardım çığlıklarına seyirci kaldı.
👎34 yaşındaki siyahi, boğularak can verdi.🔗@nypost pic.twitter.com/CoV6S9LfvX
— Batı Raporu (@BatiRaporu) June 7, 2022
“What are you going to do now?” an officer asks. “I’m going to drown. I’m going to drown,” Bickings says, according to the transcript. “No,” the officer replies. A second policeman then asks the man to swim to one of the bridge’s columns and tie himself to it. “I can not, I can not”Bickings yells. “Ok, I’m not going to jump for you,” the second officer warns him.
According to the rest of the transcript, the policemen continued to insist that the man be able to save himself, rejecting the efforts of his partner who begs for help. “Can you hear me?” are the last words attributed to Bickings.
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Later, one of the policemen notes that “he has not come to the surface for about 30 seconds”. His body was finally recovered at the end of the morning. The three police officers were suspended pending the results of various investigations launched by the authorities, said the city, which announced its intention to publish other officers’ cameras in the coming days.
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