Physiologically speaking, the human heart is the body’s engine room, pumping blood and oxygen around the body. It contracts with a regular rhythm and a steady beat from the second we are born to the moment we die. That mechanism runs on repeat, contracting, pumping, carrying, returning. Until – sometimes suddenly – it stops.
Sheku Bayoh lost consciousness on the morning of Sunday, 3 May, 2015, after he had been restrained by police for about eight minutes.
He went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance. At Kirkcaldy’s Victoria Hospital, the medical team tried to resuscitate him until he was pronounced dead at 9:04am.
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