The 2024 death of an Alabama man whose neck was kneeled upon by a police officer has been ruled a homicide, according to an autopsy report.

Body camera footage reviewed by Reeder's family but not publicly released shows him saying, "I can't breathe" three times, his wife said.

Irondale police officers did not use a knee to the back of the neck to subdue a 52-year-old man who died last year during an altercation with officers, city officials said Monday afternoon. The city’s statement was in response to a press conference held earlier in the day during which family members of Phillip David Reeder and their attorneys likened his in-custody death to that of George