A man died in police custody at a Dallas hospital in 2022 after he was denied water and restrained by multiple hospital cops while pleading “I can’t breathe,” bodycam footage released Tuesday showed.

The disturbing incident, which was ruled a homicide, came after Kenneth Knotts, 41, had been taken by police for a mental health evaluation at UT Southwestern Medical Center following a traffic stop on Nov. 29, 2022.

“The guy was in mental distress, clearly he was irrational, but you don’t have to kill them to solve what is absolutely a medical problem,” family lawyer Geoff Henley told The Dallas Morning News.