Video shows prison inmate saying 'I can't breathe' as officers restrain him before he dies

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Video released of five North Carolina detention officers restraining an inmate in a cell shows the prisoner saying 'I can't breathe' before he lost consciousness and died two days later.

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John Neville, 56, was being held on an assault charge in a Winston-Salem jail when he fell from bed and responding staff detained him in a way that prompted him to say, “I can’t breathe.”

Neville was being held at the facility on a pending assault charge when he apparently fell from the top bunk of his bed onto a concrete floor, prompting officers to check on him, according to authorities. John Neville, 56, died in a hospital days after officers restrained him in Forsyth County Detention Center after he fell from his bunk bed.

Neville died two days later in an area hospital, after jail staff found him not breathing and could not detect a pulse. A medical examiner said he ultimately died from a brain injury that was caused by the way he was being restrained.

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Whyyyyy😭

Really, two days later? Keep dividing our country. You and cnn are top in fake news.

They stangled another black man? America has a long way to go

Human beings have lived in free countries or lived under restrictions in their hate blood

Doing what the officers tell him is evidently just too much to ask for. Fighting back never ends well.

Fake News!

Um, he fell off the top bunk? More trouble making by the scumbag msm.

We’ve seen this movie too many times.

He must have committed a serious crime to be imprisoned, moreover he was misbehaving in prison and he had to be restrained by 5 officers. Well, based on all of the above It might be better for the rest of us law abiding citizens that he is gone!

Guess that inmate won't resist next time.

Was the inmate white or black

Dont fight the police. The end.

Inmate lost there rights

Being a shitbag your whole life eventually catches up to you....

But what's wrong with police officers huh 🤔🤔🤔

Isganaitis Is this the first time in our media history where cold blooded murder is carried out and broadcast for what - entertainment - five minutes of fame for the murderers? There appear to be few charges laid.

Fuk em

The moral to the story is don’t resist! Don’t be in jail, don’t put yourself in a criminal position, and be a law abiding citizen! Oh ya, don’t be a dip shit!

What did he die of? Just like Floyd a bunch of terrorist are going to jump the gun, throw facts out the window and riot over this also

WHY do they always attack in a pack?

All you have to do is obey the law

What the fk ever officers just doing their job. He should have obeyed commands

Acceptable collateral damage.

Unacceptable!

There's hundred of video's released of BLM and Antifa thugs seriously causing bodily harm to innocent people and in some cases killing people. Far less than police killings. What's your point ABC news?

Isganaitis That’s terrible-😡

I’ll bet you he was told to turn around so he could cut up he made a dumb decision

Which only proved US police are too mercy and soft to these Criminals, they even fighting against with law enforcement , that cause them got what’s they want.

They were charged with homicide quickly. Absolutely the right thing to do. Cops are not above the law.

Excited delirium is a real thing. If you've ever rolled BJJ...as a novice, you've experienced it. Add that in with drug use (even the drug alcohol) and withdrawal, health issues, etc, being pinned to the ground gets worse. We have no gun legislation and that's why US cops do this

Statement: Five detention officers, stood and watched a man lying on floor complaining he couldn’t breath, they said of course you can breathe you are talking , then he lost consciousness and died to days later, how dare he lie saying he couldn’t breathe and die.

When is the world going to learn that if you Pile onto someone or do chokeholds, it kills people. Stop

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So if I don’t die means I was actually capable to breathe? Wtf? Why won’t these stupid cops hold him from legs and arms and he was locked from hands anyway? But everyone was right on his chest! It is stupid somebody saying this is the new criminal yelling!

This how you America going to teach us humanity? 💩

Please please please! Make it stop!

Should not have done a crime.things happen.

George Floyd said he can't breath as soon as he realized he was going back to jail, high on Fentanyl. Hundeds of riots later the rest of video surfaces. Michael Brown supposedly had his 'Hands up Don't shoot', until Obama's DOJ concluded that was a lie. Quit resisting!

Don’t struggle,,,obey instructions

Evryone says they cant breathe. It’s Bullsh __!

Hasta cuando?

It is BS to portray law enforcement officers as mercenaries. Tip: don't break to fckn law and you won't ever be in fear for your life at the hands of an officer...When you do break the law and you are the lucky 99.9% that survives the arrest...don't be a d*ck in jail. Simple.

What happened before they held him down? is my question! What did he do to warrant that reaction? GeorgeFloyd resisted, and was very belligerent and aggressive. What did this person do?

Maybe his a$$ shouldn't of been in jail then.

Truth does not fit their agenda

Murderers

Take a deep breath. Where is the rest of the video? Where is Keith Ellison?

ABC isn't reporting his skin color. Wonder why 🤔

Why haven’t you guys reported about the three suspects who killed the men who were fishing late one night?

extrajudicial killing.....

Murders!

I just can't imagine how many times they may have listen to such complaint. Must be difficult to judge when is really true.

The question is did they follow Standard Operating Procedure. This is a prison not a traffic stop.

THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS!!! WHAT KIND OF 'TRAINING' DO THESE VICIOUS 'KILLER ANIMALS/CREATURES' GET BEFORE THEY PUT ON THEIR UNIFORMS?

Happening again, and again, and again

That picture does not show everything! they would not be there in that amount if he was innocent!

Solid 600-800 lbs of weaight 4x10 cell and a complete lack of empathy or compassion for the caged human equals 💀 they were just doing their job is always the argument and their lives matter be they are on the line. Barbaric 💯 PoliceBrutality

“I can’t breathe” is the new “she’s touching me!”

Again?

I understand these are horrible situations however, on the other hand,I feel criminals are just going to say they can’t breathe with every police interaction as a tool to get out of getting arrested or detained even when they can breath perfectly fine.

Yt ppl gonna yt ppl

Yelling 'I can't breathe' is the new yelling fire. And criminals know it.

This is unacceptable

Has not ceased😫😭

Certain restraints are a taught police procedure - which media is failing to report, because you have to hold political leaders responsible instead of manipulating misery of black people and playing them. Don’t be chicken shit. Go after the mayors first and police chiefs second.

Was this the guy with the plastic bag over his head?

Really ABC? The media keep dividing this country!! Maybe you should check the videos in Portland!

It seems like, this keeps happening. But ya know...let’s support the police despite these issues. They got a busy schedule of planting evidence and killing minorities PoliceBrutality PoliteEnquiries

It’s bully mentality

5!!! FIVE!!!! I bet all five still have their jobs.... How many have been murdered by these detention center employees since being employed to control and abuse others already doing time? NorthCarolina

The police are still killing people. Is there no change since George Floyd? And all the protests? Is there no oversight?

Every inmate yells he can’t breathe when they get moved on. It’s inmate SOP.

Jesus H Christ. Needless ignorance in law enforcement all over this country.

TiffanyDCross Cops believe that if you can speak, then you are breathing. When you struggle to get air, the beat and restrain you more and accuse you of not cooperating. They get away with murder because the techniques they use are allowed. This has been going on for generations.

LochnerWalter Why can't these people restrain without killing?

Will they ever learn🤯

He can’t breath but he can sure resist.

With all the 'I can't breath'cases you would think the correction officers and the police would conduct themselves in a different manner. Since they choose not to, prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. No bail and 1st degree murder. They know better!

FUCKING TIREDDDDDD OF THIS SHIT,

buddywriterdude Compress or damage those arteries bringing oxygenated blood to the brain, & it's curtains.

Two days later!? Sheeeeeeeeeet negro, anything could have happened between that point and two days later.

Law enforcement in America are criminally incompetent.

They gotta get better with this, because when somebody yell's I can't breath, that's a sign to get off the person, and or give them room to breath! It's not that deep!!

“Working in a correctional facility will change you as a person. You'll see violence and horror, interact with dangerous inmates and deal with stress on a daily basis.” “Female jail guards join public defenders in suing over sexual harassment by detainees.”

Include the names of all five officers in the lawsuit as well along with the county of Forsyth and Wellpath. We need to start holding them accountable for their reckless behavior in these cases by hitting them in their pockets!!

Anybody see a trend?

Apparently towns & their police force have lots of cash laying around for lawsuits to allow this to continue.

I do NOT believe the so-called coroner report! Not for one second. Damage from his fall very possible. Another deliberate attempt of liberal corruption.

yo! your country 🙌

“I can’t breathe” now being used by every person being taken into custody to try to avoid arrest.

If he were a white guy waiting for trial he probably wouldn’t have been held- ROR or out on bail.... Mr.Neville died because he was Black in the US

If they didn’t need to restrain these people these people would still be alive DonotResist

Msm creating racial divisions

ABC, lets stir it up today and press a story that will cause another Target to be burned and more police and innocents being killed. MediaBias We have young interns that can't stay busy...go grab a story you idiots...we are a dying media outlet.

proflevin Abolish the police

I work in a psych hospital and the point is using 5+ people in a necessary takedown as opposed to 1 or 2, is to avoid injury for the staff but most especially for the individual being taken down. No one has ever died during a takedown in the 12 years I’ve worked their.

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This is called suicide. Let the nurse take your blood pressure for goodness sake. If society has gotten so soft that it can’t stomach the occasional death of this sort, perhaps cops should tranquilize and tag such inmates like beasts on the Serengeti.

Tragic!

i cant breath then do as your told then , maybe dont commit the crime in the first place

i’m pretty sure you that fat cow in the back was the final blow that lead to this young man death

I bet he was white.

Was he high on drugs and resisting like the new George Floyd video shows him high on drugs and resisting?

Here we go again

He had heard disease. Asthma. Fell from a top bunk. Died two days later. And it’s the cops fault for restraining him while they took off handcuffs?

Easy fix. Get told to do something, just do it. No fighting equals no dying.

Bad cops 🤔

If Joe Biden wins the election the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would take away out oil and coal and the United States would be like Venezuela then we could eat dogs. Would do what the communist Bernie Sanders wants and Joe Biden would have Beto O’Rourke take our away ourguns.

Was he also high as a kite on 3 different drugs and died from a heart attack?

Feeding the baying mass what they want... ABC that is pityful!

I'm still heavy tryna find a good cop who doesn't base their entire confidence and self worth in their job. People get into policing just for the power and to gain a sense of superiority, nothing more..

Same thing happened in Harrisburg PA at Dauphin County Prison. TyRique Riley was Murdered by CO's then of course it was covered up. I read his Hospital Medical Records. He was murdered.

Why was he retrained in the first place?

So many instances but the AG says 'nothing' systematic to see'. Am I wrong to wish pain and suffering on him?

Report mentions brain injury from how he was handled. Maybe it was from falling off top bunk. As always, medical facts need to be revealed rather than assumptions reported. What's with the bag?

More selective outrage journalism from disney to cover up the fact they are making billions in China off mass genocide of peaceful minority, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Cantonese. Why does ABC never report on these killings?

'two days later' Does smothering someone to death take two full days?

2 years later though.

5 😐

Too bad AG Ellison withheld much of the Floyd video. May have saved lives and property. But, as he said he wanted only to prosecute, (not justice). O'Biden may have this monster as his AG.

TZZToday The officers need to be executed for murder by the state

This is a problem.

TiffanyDCross Five officers?!? I'm starting to think they like doing this shit.

Nor could I looks, like something in common

Snap shot of the facts!

Humanity is dying

Murder Under tha Color of Law!!!!!!

Same shit... Different cast. Smh

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