‘You would freak out too if you couldn’t breathe’: Mayor opens probe after man in distress dies following removal from ambulance

Video footage released by the City of Rochester, New York shows a patient being forced to exit an ambulance after police were called. The man later died and now the mayor of Rochester is calling for a probe into the patient

Video footage released by the City of Rochester, New York shows a patient being forced to exit an ambulance after police were called. The man later died and now the mayor of Rochester is calling for a probe into the patient’s death.

“You would freak out too if you couldn’t breathe.”

Those were the words captured on video of a man in a medical crisis in New York who died two weeks after police removed him from an ambulance on the side of a city street and then left him slumped on the ground for two minutes unattended, according to a mayor who has now demanded an investigation.

The City of Rochester released the video, provided in this report by Law&Crime, on Thursday, but the incident occurred on Nov. 30. Rochester Mayor Malik Evans said at a press conference Thursday that the man’s family was the first to alert him to what had happened and he was only able to demand the start of an investigation, he told reporters, because police “blue light” or surveillance cameras at the scene in November showed him most of what had occurred.

The man’s name is not being released at this time at the family’s request though they told the mayor he died around Christmas, a few weeks after the incident.

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