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AZ Police Officers Allegedly Refuse to Save Drowning Man

The Teller by The Teller
August 10, 2022
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Tempe, Ariz. — Three Tempe police officers are on non-disciplinary administrative paid leave after allegedly not helping a homeless man who ԀгᴏwпᴇԀ in a man-made city lake.

Tempe police have released edited officers’ body camera footage of the May 28 incident.

According to a transcript of the footage provided by the city, 34-year-old Sean Bickings told Tempe police he was Ԁгᴏwпɪпɡ and begged officers for help.

CBS Phoenix affiliate KPHO-TV reports the incident started when Tempe police officers responded to a call about an argument between Bickings and his wife, who lived outside the Tempe Center For The Arts.

While officers were talking to them, Bickings jumped in the water and swam away. It was the last time he was seen alive on the 11-minute edited video.

Orionya Jensen, who knew Bickings for years and was once homeless herself, told the station, “That’s all I can describe it as — it was devastating.”

The station says a transcript has Bickings’ last words as, “I’m Ԁгᴏwпɪпɡ , I’m Ԁгᴏwпɪпɡ .”

After an officer guides him to a pylon, Bickings says he can’t make it, and the officer replies, “OK. I’m not jumping in after you.”

“To hear of someone standing there while his wife screams in the background to ‘save my husband, I don’t have anything without him’ — it’s despicable,” Jensen said.

The station says a transcript has Bickings’ last words as, “I’m Ԁгᴏwпɪпɡ , I’m Ԁгᴏwпɪпɡ .”

After an officer guides him to a pylon, Bickings says he can’t make it, and the officer replies, “OK. I’m not jumping in after you.”

“To hear of someone standing there while his wife screams in the background to ‘save my husband, I don’t have anything without him’ — it’s despicable,” Jensen said.

The Tempe Officers Association said in a statement that the officers have no training in water rescues or any equipment for them. The officers, the association said, would be at risk of Ԁгᴏwпɪпɡ themselves if they tried to save Bickings.

So instead, the officers called in a police boat which is, the association says, the correct protocol.

The association also said the officers couldn’t detain Bickings since he and his wife denied having had a physical fɪɡһт.

Local attorney Benjamin Taylor, who isn’t affiliated with the case, told KPHO the family has a strong case against the city of Tempe.

“Here is a failure to serve and protect,” he said. “The fact that they failed to render aid as he was Ԁʏɪпɡ, he was pleading for help, that definitely makes Tempe liable for this man’s Ԁᴇɑтһ.”

According to the transcript, a person identified in the document as a witness attempted to jump into the lake to help Bickings, who didn’t гᴇѕᴜгfɑᴄᴇ.

A city fire department rescue team recovered Bickings’ body and pronounced him ԀᴇɑԀ.

Tempe officials have asked the Arizona Department of Public Safety to investigate the police response to the Ԁгᴏwпɪпɡ .

Of Bickings, Jensen said, “He was a thinker, always had something thought-provoking to say.”

 

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