Roy Anthony Scott died in 2019 after being handcuffed and held down by two Las Vegas officers. Scott called 911 to report that a group of people — one armed with a saw — was trying to break into his apartment. Events snowballed into a confrontation where police struggled to handcuff Scott, who told the officers he had “paranoid schizophrenia.
This image from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department body-camera video shows Roy Scott, 65, outside his apartment complex in Las Vegas on March 3, 2019, moments after he tells police officers that he is a paranoid schizophrenic.
The officers knocked on Scott’s second-floor apartment door and asked him to come out, but Scott insisted the intruders were now inside his apartment and asked police to kick in his door, body-camera footage shows.Non-shooting deaths involving Las Vegas police often receive less official scrutiny than shootingsInstead, the officers shined a flashlight through Scott’s apartment window. They later testified they saw a man standing alone, looking off with a “thousand yard stare.
Officers then turned Scott facedown onto his stomach and pressed the weight of their bodies and gear against him for over 90 seconds while struggling to put on the handcuffs before rolling him onto his back and side, according to police body-camera video. Throughout Scott repeatedly begged the officers to please stop.
“They made him look like a monster, like he was just this dopehead and nobody cared and loved him,” she added. “That was not the case.” The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department does not have training specifically for meth-induced crises. But it does have a policy on “Responding to Persons in Behavioral Crisis or with Special Needs” that identifies excited delirium as an “acute, excited state” that is “usually associated with illicit or prescription drug use and manifested by behavioral and physical changes that may result in sudden and unexplained death.
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