In one portion of the transcript, which was released by the city to supplement the video of Bickings' drowning, an officer tells Bickings, “Okay, I’m not jumping in after you,' after Bickings had said several times that he was drowning.
Just before his death, a homeless man in Arizona pleaded for help, repeating “I’m going to drown" to nearby officers, including one who said he would not jump in the lake to attempt a rescue, officials said.Sean Bickings' death last month was a “tragedy," Tempe City Manager Andrew Ching and Police Chief Jeff Glover said in aOn Monday, the city released about 12 minutes of edited body camera video that preceded Bickings’ death near the Elmore Pedestrian Bridge.
Representatives with the Tempe Officers Association, the city’s police union, said Monday that its"grief mirrors our community’s grief,” adding, “No one wanted this incident to end as it did.” Police responded about 5 a.m. to the city’s Center for the Arts after a reported disturbance between Bickings and a female companion, according to the city's account.
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