Tony had mental illness. He was out in public and called police using his cell phone saying he was out of his meds and having a crisis, and needed help. Police arrived and by this time a security officer from a nearby business was restraining Tony. Zip tied, police laid him on the ground and knelt on him while making fun of him For 14 minutes while medics arrived to give a sedative. Tony complained that they were killing him and he couldn’t breathe until he died. Medics who arrived made no attempt to revive him. At autopsy, he was found to have cocaine in his system (not unlike Mr. Floyd, who instead had fentanyl). Misdemeanor charges of misconduct were brought against officer Mansell who had knelt on Tony’s neck, but were dropped by the DA.
Thank you brother. After asking the question, I did some searching. It’s just as awful of a story, maybe worse, than what we recently witnessed. I’m not a blue-basher. Quite the opposite. But shit does need to change and color has nothing to do with it.
No question. In Timpa’s case, I have no idea why charges were so anemic and then dropped altogether. There was bodycam footage.
The procedure of kneeling on necks for extended periods of >1 minute needs to be seriously revised. Clearly this technique kills people.
Floyd’s case is being prosecuted as Murder-3. Timpa’s killer was never prosecuted. Why the discrepancy when the details of the case were so similar? As far as I know Timpa just called Police for help, wasn’t even a suspect.
I think bodycam footage is a useful tool to keep the few bad cops from misbehaving. Police have a huge amount of authority, and it is appropriate that there be a system to ensure that they are not misusing their power and deadly force authorization.
The celebrity personality “Charlamagne tha God” told Rush Limbaugh that he knew systemic racism was active because what happened to Floyd could never happen to a white man. Somebody should inform him about Tony Timpa.
You say "clearly this technique kills people", but nothing is clear about it. Both these cases involved hard drugs in the system that could have caused cardiac arrest on their own.
I'm not saying the technique definitely isn't dangerous either, just that we don't know if it truly is or is not.
The relationship between the DA and cops is the problem. They're both on team government and won't turn on each other.
I worked with a retired cop and he told me a story about how when he was working security at a large country music festival, he had to write up an off duty cop from a nearby city for having an open container while driving and providing alcohol to minors. He later got verbally reprimanded and found out everything was ignored and thrown out.
I’ve only recently even heard about him (and I’m close to Dallas). Anyone know what he was being detained for? The backstory?
Tony had mental illness. He was out in public and called police using his cell phone saying he was out of his meds and having a crisis, and needed help. Police arrived and by this time a security officer from a nearby business was restraining Tony. Zip tied, police laid him on the ground and knelt on him while making fun of him For 14 minutes while medics arrived to give a sedative. Tony complained that they were killing him and he couldn’t breathe until he died. Medics who arrived made no attempt to revive him. At autopsy, he was found to have cocaine in his system (not unlike Mr. Floyd, who instead had fentanyl). Misdemeanor charges of misconduct were brought against officer Mansell who had knelt on Tony’s neck, but were dropped by the DA.
Thank you brother. After asking the question, I did some searching. It’s just as awful of a story, maybe worse, than what we recently witnessed. I’m not a blue-basher. Quite the opposite. But shit does need to change and color has nothing to do with it.
No question. In Timpa’s case, I have no idea why charges were so anemic and then dropped altogether. There was bodycam footage.
The procedure of kneeling on necks for extended periods of >1 minute needs to be seriously revised. Clearly this technique kills people.
Floyd’s case is being prosecuted as Murder-3. Timpa’s killer was never prosecuted. Why the discrepancy when the details of the case were so similar? As far as I know Timpa just called Police for help, wasn’t even a suspect.
I think bodycam footage is a useful tool to keep the few bad cops from misbehaving. Police have a huge amount of authority, and it is appropriate that there be a system to ensure that they are not misusing their power and deadly force authorization.
The celebrity personality “Charlamagne tha God” told Rush Limbaugh that he knew systemic racism was active because what happened to Floyd could never happen to a white man. Somebody should inform him about Tony Timpa.
You say "clearly this technique kills people", but nothing is clear about it. Both these cases involved hard drugs in the system that could have caused cardiac arrest on their own.
I'm not saying the technique definitely isn't dangerous either, just that we don't know if it truly is or is not.
The relationship between the DA and cops is the problem. They're both on team government and won't turn on each other.
I worked with a retired cop and he told me a story about how when he was working security at a large country music festival, he had to write up an off duty cop from a nearby city for having an open container while driving and providing alcohol to minors. He later got verbally reprimanded and found out everything was ignored and thrown out.
Bad cops are a DIME A DOZEN!
Sorry for being lazy...just did some homework. Damn....
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/07/31/you-re-gonna-kill-me-dallas-police-body-cam-footage-reveals-the-final-minutes-of-tony-timpa-s-life/%3foutputType=amp
removed google prefix:
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/07/31/you-re-gonna-kill-me-dallas-police-body-cam-footage-reveals-the-final-minutes-of-tony-timpa-s-life/?outputType=amp/