NEW: New bodycam footage shows Texas man Kenneth Knotts saying "I can't breathe" before dying in police custody at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Knotts was taken for a mental health evaluation after a traffic stop. When he got to the hospital, Knotts appeared to be suffering from a mental breakdown and wouldn't comply with the police. Knotts was taken to the hospital after his tire blew out on the freeway. An incident report says he was acting "erratically, combative and spitting" when police approached. After wrestling with him and putting him on his stomach in the hospital, Knotts stopped breathing. "No pulse! No pulse!" a staffer yelled. The medical examiner report allegedly ruled Knotts died of cardiac arrest after being put in a "semi-prone position," a homicide. In November, a Dallas County grand jury declined to indict anyone involved with the homicide.
@wealth_turtle Two things can be true at once. 1. Knotts should have complied and not acted like a id*ot. 2. The police should be more cautious when someone is hyperventilating and clearly having a mental breakdown.
I’m a former ER nurse and if I had a quarter for every time a patient brought in by police said they couldn’t breathe and then lashed out at us and police when we let our guard down, I would be rich! Sorry but sometimes we and the police have to err on the side of caution so we get to go home to our families and care for the next patient.
@CollinRugg @wealth_turtle Also WAIT until the after the ME and tox reports. He could have been trying to hide drugs and ingested a lethal dose.
@CollinRugg @wealth_turtle My God, your snowflake world must be a demolition zone. Remember, you don't need paper as long as you have the three seashells.
@CollinRugg @wealth_turtle I bet he was all method up. I can't remember the name of it, but cops and medical professionals have a name for it when people overheat and die from all the drugs they did...
@CollinRugg @wealth_turtle They want to defund the police but we need the exact opposite. I've said this so many times, but once more, 6 months is not enough training time for policing.
@CollinRugg @wealth_turtle You want them to behave like defensive football players who aren't allowed to tackle anyone anymore, but are still expected to somehow keep people from scoring touchdowns.
@CollinRugg @wealth_turtle he's at a hospital. looks like they did their part and God did his. winner winner fried chicken dinner.
@CollinRugg @wealth_turtle And 3. It easy for you to say when you are not the one facing this situation. Often it’s far from “clear” in the moment.
There is no way police could have known he was in danger of suffering a heart attack. Sadly, people about to have or in the middle of heart attacks do lie down and do die as a result. People with victims suggest they lie down. What this shows, unfortunately too late for the victim, is that more training in such matters is needed.
Wait?? He was with paramedics and DOCTORS! This has nothing to do with anyone’s actions. Dudes episode wasn’t stopping even for medics to intervene. There’s no TWO things here. If medics had stayed away from him in fear of being HURT since he wouldn’t allow restraint or assistance, he was pretty much done anyway. Then you’d be saying “well they should’ve helped him!” This was a NO Win situation. He didn’t die from neglect on someone’s part on the street, he was in the hospital!!! There’s no Medical staff that’s going to risk being attacked or hurt with someone like that without restraint. End of story..