Salt Lake City cops release body-cam footage showing officers restrain man who later died

The Salt Lake Metropolis Police Division on Friday launched body-camera footage displaying officers restraining an unarmed man who died roughly an hour later.

A 911 name positioned on Aug. 14 reported that a man in underwear had tried to steal beer from Fisher Brewing within the metropolis’s Granary District neighborhood and attacked an individual at their door. The person, 35-year-old Nykon Brandon, fled the shop and proceeded to run into the street.

“He’s working round loopy, very erratic,” the caller stated. “He simply jumped out and in of the street. He’s throwing stuff.”

This police body camera still image provided by the Salt Lake City Police Department on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, shows police officers trying to subdue Nykon Brandon on the street in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022. A caller to 911 in Salt Lake City said the man had come into a brewery in his underwear, tried to steal beer and was running around in the street, posing a danger to himself and to drivers. Police tried to detain the man. Within minutes, Brandon was dead. ()
The 911 caller famous that the person “positively psychological well being points happening so…in the event you’ve bought psychological well being assets ship them.”
Salt Lake Metropolis Police Division by way of AP

In accordance with an SLCD press launch, officers have been dispatched at 3:16 p.m. native time. In a roughly six-minute video of footage from an officer’s body-cam, Brandon is in gray boxers and could be seen darting round on the road whereas making an attempt to keep away from cops. As police order the person to cease and try restrain him on the aspect of the street, Brandon could be seen flailing and seems to seize at an officer’s holstered gun.

Video exhibits officers ultimately restraining Brandon facedown within the gravel along with his palms behind his again in handcuffs and whimpering.

At one level, in line with an SLCPD press launch, Brandon is reported to have had a medical incident. Officers administer a number of doses of the anti-overdose remedy Narcan and carry out chest compressions.

Brandon was taken to a hospital and later died, FOX 13 reported.

The division stated it was notified Brandon died at 4:16, though “the precise time of demise is unknown.”

The 911 caller famous that the person “positively psychological well being points happening so…in the event you’ve bought psychological well being assets ship them.”

KUTV reported that simply earlier than the late afternoon name on Aug. 14, South Salt Lake cops earlier within the day had responded to a 911 report involving Brandon.

Officers had been dispatched in response to a report of a person “appearing confused and scared,” the station reported. They took him to a Salt Lake Metropolis detox facility and cited him for public intoxication, however as a result of the power just isn't a detention middle, he was free to depart at his personal selecting.

In a press release following the discharge of the body-cam footage, SLCPD Chief Mike Brown stated: “We're dedicated to fastidiously reviewing the investigative findings on this case. As a forward-thinking division, we are going to use these findings to guage our insurance policies, coaching, and procedures to proceed guaranteeing we're making our metropolis safer.”

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