An 18-year-old Indianapolis teenager died in police custody on Sept. 26
after repeatedly asking for medical help.
Day's mother, Shanika Askew, said her son had not been suffering from any health problems or ever had asthma.
"I just want answers to why they didn't send him to the hospital when he said he was hurting the first time," Askew told NBC station WTHR on Sunday. "Why did they leave and have to come back?"
Something's not adding up. Like Freddie Gray and Eric Garner before him, police opted to proceed with the arrest of Terrell Day in spite of their own admission that he repeatedly asked for medical help and told them he couldn't breathe.
Was he Tasered by police? Beaten? Were they wearing body cameras? Was he handcuffed and experiencing an obvious medical emergency while restrained?
According to reports, before Day was ever placed in a police vehicle, he was in some type of distress and requested medical help. Police claim that an ambulance team came and cleared him to be transported to the jail. Was this filmed? What were their conclusions?
Once the police left with Terrell and he went into distress and again asked for medical aid, whatever happened was fatal.
All of these things desperately need to be filmed. Whatever the case, it just doesn't make sense that he was denied the medical help he so desperately needed.