After speaking to the couple, officers turned to 34-year-old homeless Sean Bickings for questioning.
A homeless man drowned in the United States under the gaze of useless police officers, according to images and a transcript released Monday by local authorities.
The agents were called on May 28 at dawn near the reservoir of Tempe, Arizona, due to the “noise” caused by the man who died and his partner.
After speaking to the couple, officers turned to 34-year-old homeless Sean Bickings for questioning.
The 34-year-old man jumped into the water and then drowned.
After a few minutes, Bickings climbed over the shroud that protects the lake and dropped to the surface of the water. The officers told him that he did not have the right to swim in the lake, but the homeless man swam in an area under a bridge.
The images were then discontinued, as the city held the rest of the the video was too “sensitive”but they provided an audio transcript.
“What will you do now?” asks an officer. “I’m about to drown. I’m about to drown. “ says Bickings, according to the transcript. “No,” replies the officer.
The cops did nothing to stop the man from drowning.
A second policeman then asks the man to swim to one of the bridge columns and bond with it. “I can’t, I can’t,” Bickings yells. “Ok, I’m not going to jump for you”, the second officer warns him.
According to the rest of the transcript, the cops continued to insist that the man be able to save himself, refusing the efforts of his partner who begs for help. “Can you hear me?” are the last words attributed to Bickings.
The homeless man jumped into the water and was not helped by the police.
Later, one of the policemen notices him “It didn’t emerge for about 30 seconds.” His body was finally recovered at the end of the morning.
The three policemen were suspended pending the results of several investigations launched by the authorities.said the city, which has announced plans to release cameras from other agents in the coming days.
Source: Clarin
