Thirty-two-year-old Tony Timpa was killed in Dallas while being detained by five police officers. He himself called 911 from a parking lot, saying that he was afraid and needed assistance. He told the services that he suffered from depression and schizophrenia and had failed to take his medication. He was reportedly off his mental-health medication, though he had, like Floyd, taken other drugs. The detention and death of Tony Timpa, like those of George Floyd, was caught on camera—this time in police bodycam footage. Like Floyd, Timpa was unarmed, and like Floyd, his death was horribly,
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