Frank Tyson's last words were "I can't breathe."

The city of Canton released 911 calls and police body camera footage Wednesday night showing Tyson's arrest and struggle with two police officers last week.

Tyson, 53, who lived in the East Canton area, died after being taken to the ground and handcuffed inside the AMVETS building on Sherrick Road SE.

Police say he crashed his car into a utility pole, abandoned the vehicle and ran into the building.

The bodycam video shows police, directed to the AMVETS by witnesses, going into the bar area and taking Tyson to the floor as he screamed that police officers were trying to kill him.

Police got him onto the floor; one officer applied his knee to Tyson's back for about a minute as another police officer handcuffed him. Tyson said several times that "I can't breathe." And then less than a minute after the officers handcuffed him, he went silent.

The police officers left Tyson, who had been released from state prison earlier this month after serving a 24-year sentence for kidnapping, on the floor face down for nearly 8 minutes before the officer who handcuffed Tyson realized he couldn't feel a pulse. He took the handcuffs off and he and another officer applied chest compressions for several minutes.

Canton police have turned the investigation over to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and officers Beau Schoenegge and Camden Burch have been placed on administrative leave. The Stark County Coroner's Office sent Tyson's body to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy and no cause of death has been released yet.

The city showed the 35-minute video to Tyson's family before releasing it publicly.

“Today we have released the bodycam footage of the arrest incident involving the death of Mr. Frank E. Tyson," Mayor William V. Sherer II said in a prepared statement. "I sat down with members of the Tyson family to not only allow them to see what is now being released to the public, but to give them my condolences in person.

"As we make it through this challenging time, my goal is to be as transparent with this community as possible. This investigation is in the hands of BCI, and we will continue to provide them with all the required information they need to do their work. Given this is a pending investigation, we are limited on what further information we can provide.”