You do rescue breathing if the person has a pulse but isn’t breathing; if the heart stops you add compressions. These cops would have known that. There is no excuse for this man to die without any efforts to save him. NO EXCUSE.
They changed it. You no longer have to do rescue breathing. I would not do rescue breathing on anybody I don’t know. Been there.
I watched the video again, and listened to it. From that very limited video, that may have been doctored by the media, AKA Rodney King, who can say for certain what aid any of those cops rendered? There are two cops near him at the end of the video and there are still-photos of the ambulance crew on scene. So, obviously, someone called for a rescue squad. Anything other than that is open to speculation.
Bottom line, the guy resisted arrest. He knew the drill, the article says he has 31 prior arrests, put your hands behind your back, let them take you down town, book you and have your day in court. Then, if they had been harassing him as he said in the video, get an ambulance chaser to sue the pants off the cops.
I wonder how many other times he resisted arrest in his 31 arrest history. You also hear him saying he just broke up a fight. How much did he exert himself in that police action? Obviously obese and looks to be sweating, he may have got himself jacked up, on the way to a heart attack in that little escapade.