Posted on 07/31/2019 1:49:12 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
FULL TITLE 'You're gonna kill me!': Dallas police body cam footage reveals the final minutes of Tony Timpa's life
Tony Timpa wailed and pleaded for help more than 30 times as Dallas police officers pinned his shoulders, knees and neck to the ground.
“You’re gonna kill me! You’re gonna kill me! You’re gonna kill me!”
After Timpa fell unconscious, the officers who had him in handcuffs assumed he was asleep and didn’t confirm that he was breathing or feel for a pulse.
As precious minutes passed, the officers laughed and joked about waking Timpa up for school and making him waffles for breakfast.
Body camera footage obtained Tuesday by The Dallas Morning News shows first responders waited at least four minutes after Timpa became unresponsive to begin CPR. His nose was buried in the grass while officers claimed to hear him snoring -- apparently unaware that the unarmed man was drawing his last breaths.
The officers pinned his handcuffed arms behind his back for nearly 14 minutes and zip-tied his legs together. By the time he was loaded onto a gurney and put into an ambulance, the 32-year-old was dead.
~SNIP~
The footage also shows the officers mocking Timpa as he struggled to live. Shortly after one officer ridicules Timpa’s repeated cries for help, an officer notes that he appears to be “out cold.”
They joke that he’s merely asleep and try to wake him: “It’s time for school. Wake up!”
One officer mimics a teen saying: “I don’t want to go to school! Five more minutes, Mom!”
They joke about buying him new shoes for the first day of school and making him a special breakfast, laughing loudly.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
I’m thinking:
Snowflakes == Dallas Morning News (liberal rag)
Any given common word can serve as a ‘trigger’ if framed right is their journalistic motto.
Looks like Dallas has the same problem as we do here: Too many cops with nothing to do.
It takes 8 cars and 20 cops to go thru a homeless guy’s backpack.
Bonus for them if they can park their cars so that they block lots of traffic.
Then they can stand around and crack jokes like 12-year-olds at summer camp.
Sounds to me like they murdered him.
Meanwhile, 5 dead Dallas cops are gone and forgotten by the media and lunatic left.
re: “Police responded to his 911 call for help. He died. What happened to Tony Timpa?”
What happened?
Tony OD’d ... stupid *h!t.
They just gave hima a large dose of versed to combat the crack high and agitation. It is a strong short acting drug that is sued to induce twilight sedation...
Come back when you are sober.
> This is not the first incident exhibiting stupidity and indifference the Dallas cops have been involved with and it will not be the last. <
I get that cops have a tough job. I really get it. But what some folks don’t understand is that any one of us could be next. For example, reach for your driver’s license when a cop asks for it, and then get shot.
I understand they needed to subdue him, but STANDARD PROCEDURE should be to check someone who becomes unconscious during a struggle, to make sure they are still breathing.
Not leave him face down in the dirt and laugh.
Dumbasses.
Manslaughter at a minimum.
L
Never-mind the leg-kicks he gives the poh-leece?
Leg kicks? LOL. Stay home where it's safe for you, snowflake.
Tony was white.
He ran out of privileges?
“ Dallas County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, saying Timpa died of sudden cardiac arrest, secondarily caused by the effects of cocaine and stress from being restrained.” Appears it will be up the jury?
Cocaine will kill ya.
Death penalty might put stop to this sort of thing...
If only had a dog they could shoot he’d still be alive.
Sounds like “excited delirium” which is basically and irreversible death spiral.
Cops will go through hell for something the perp did to himself.
If they had remained professional throughout the arrest it would have been a slam-dunk for them.
Now a moment of levity and indiscretion will be used against them in a court of law.
After watching that, I’d say the victim had a lot to do with his own demise. Even after being cuffed he’s fighting them. They had to restrain him ... and that took some force.
Now, the joking around part ... man, that’s just insensitive. And they should’ve checked his vitals. Negligence at worst ... definitely not murder.
From the article:
Like police, doctors have a difficult and stressful job that sometimes involves making life-or-death decisions under conditions of uncertainty. But unlike police, doctors don't expect the rest of us to pay for their mistakes. Instead, doctors carry professional liability insurance, which pays to defend them against malpractice claims and protects them from financial ruin by paying out damage awards to successful plaintiffs.
Insurance companies are exceptionally good at identifying risk. Think about car insurance. The more accidents or speeding tickets a driver has had, the higher their premiums will be. The same is true for teenagers, who tend to get in more wrecks than adults and therefore represent a greater risk to the insurance company.
Instead of spreading those risks among all of their policyholders, insurance companies charge risky drivers more while giving a break to their safest drivers, who pay less.
Consider how that could work with police. Most misconduct is committed by a relatively small fraction of cops. Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton defended "the vast, vast, vast majority, that 99%" who do their work well, while saying "the brutal, the corrupt, the racist, the incompetent" must face consequences.
Unfortunately, police departments have a hard time getting rid of their own bad apples: For example, the officers who tried to frame Wiggins are still employed by the NYPD; no charges have been filed against them.
But insurance companies have powerful incentives to identify the greatest risks — whether drivers, doctors or cops — and charge them accordingly. If cops had to carry insurance, the worst offenders would quickly be identified and charged higher rates. If they failed to clean up their act, they would eventually become uninsurable and thus unemployable.
Cops will go through hell for something the perp did to himself.
If the cops believed that, it wouldn't have taken three years and a court order to release the video.
Yes. This reminds me of Eric Garner in New York City.
Lots of people - even Freepers - blamed his death on a cop choke hold.
When in fact the autopsy proved otherwise.
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