NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Andrew Kearse, 40, repeatedly asked for assistance as a Schenectady police officer turned a deaf ear to his pleas, according to the audio obtained by BuzzFeed.com. (FACEBOOK)
A Bronx man who died in police custody echoed Eric Garner’s unanswered call for help, telling cops “I can’t breathe” before he died last May, an audio recording showed Wednesday.
Andrew Kearse, 40, repeatedly asked for assistance as a Schenectady police officer turned a deaf ear to his pleas, according to the audio obtained by BuzzFeed.com.
“Please, please sir,” Kearse says as he struggles to catch his breath. “I can’t breathe! Please! Sir! Yo!”
Kearse — on parole for grand larceny at the time of his arrest — tried to flee on foot after cops pulled him over for driving erratically.
As the suspect begged the arresting officers to get him help, one of the cops sarcastically made reference to Kearse’s decision to flee.
“Please, please ... Officer!” the suspect shouts at one point.
“Is it hot?” one of the cops inquires. “You probably shouldn’t run next time.”
The audio was lifted from a police dash cam video after Kearse’s May 11, 2017, motor vehicle arrest in Schenectady. Kearse was released from state prison just 15 days earlier.
Kearse repeated verbatim the words of Staten Island police chokehold victim Garner, who told arresting officers “I can’t breathe” before he collapsed and died.
At another point on the Kearse audio, as the cops drove with the suspect in the back seat, the doomed man was heard pleading for assistant.
“Excuse me, sir?” asked Kearse.
“What?” the cop replied.
Angelique Negroni-Kearse and her daughter Serenity Kearse, 1, at an emotional candlelight vigil for her late husband, Andrew Kearse, who died in police custody on May 11. (ANGUS MORDANT/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
“Officer, officer please,” the suspect continued.
“Please what?” the cop responded.
“Come here,” Kearse begged.
“What do you want?” the cop answered.
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