Criminal charges and a civil lawsuit have been filed against Lakeside Academy for Children and Sequel Youth Services of Michigan in connection with the smothering death of a Black teen WKZO reports. 16-year-old Cornelius Fredericks lawyer family, Geoffrey Fiege had a press conference where he said the video of the incident shows Fredericks was restrained multiple employees at the facility.
Surveillance video captures Fredericks sitting at a lunchroom table before he tosses his sandwich to another table, causing a staff member to push him to the ground while two other staff members join.
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“Cornelius urinated on himself during the time in which they were killing him…He’s not fighting at all because you’ll see his shoes and his feet are just lying there,” Fieger explained.
“One of the children was at the next table and has repeatedly advised us that Cornelius said ‘I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe,’” he added.
The video also displays Heather McLogan, a nurse doing nothing to help Fredericks as lays on the ground lifeless. McLogan eventually calls police several minutes later before employees perform CPR on Fredericks.
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