Tempe, Arizona: Police Watch as Sean Bickings Drowns, Also Prevent Bystander From Helping

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What's especially chilling is how police in both instances not only failed themselves to help but actively attempted to stop bystanders from helping.​

Tempe Police Watch as Man Drowns

6 June 2022

Tempe police watched a man drown while refusing to offer assistance. "I'm not jumping in after you," one of the officers says in a transcript of body-cam footage from the encounter, which took place at Tempe Town Lake around sunrise on Saturday, May 28. The man, Sean Bickings, repeatedly asked the officers for help. After the Tempe Fire Department's dive and rescue team pulled him out of the water, he was pronounced dead. Body-cam footage released by the Tempe Police Department shows the lead-up to Bickings' death, in which Tempe police officers responded to some sort of altercation between Bickings ...

Tempe Police Watch as Man Drowns

"I'm not jumping in after you," one of the officers says in a transcript of body-cam footage from the encounter.

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Ten feet away as Baldwin took his last breaths, police taunted him as he drowned.​

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“Your dumb a** jumped in the river,” would be the last thing Baldwin would hear.​

‘I’m Not Going to Help You’: Man Drowned in Lake As Police Refused to Help

6 June 2022

As Americans are quickly finding out after the horrifying shooting in Uvalde, Texas — during which police refused to go into the school to save the children — law enforcement has no legal duty to protect citizens. Case law going back decades in the Supreme Court has clearly established this premise and it has been used to defend cops who were charged over their cowardice. While there are certainly many police officers who will put themselves in harms way to do good and save lives, Uvalde, Parkland, and the following case out of Tempe, prove that there are still plenty ...

'I'm Not Going to Help You': Man Drowned in Lake As Police Refused to Help

Three police officers have been placed on administrative leave after they reportedly watched as a man drowned in Tempe Town Lake, while refusing to help.

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