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Stephen Dolceamore died in April 2020 following a struggle with Trenton police officers.

State publicizes footage of man who died after being pepper sprayed during arrest Today 9:02 PM “I can’t breathe,” the 64-year-old said one time. “I can’t catch my breath,” another time. Moments before, officers pulled him from his front door during a brief standoff of wills and took him to the ground and handcuffed him during a struggle in which an officer used pepper spray on Ahr. The officers were looking for his namesake son, who had been outside with Ahr, but had gone back inside, and Ahr was blocking them. A few minutes after his arrest, in between gasps, a contrite Ahr sai...

Read / Add Comments New Jersey's chief law enforcement official on Thursday released police bodycam footage of the arrest of a 64-year-old Trenton man who died 18 days later in the hospital. Joseph Ahr Sr., 64, was already being restrained by three police officers when a fourth pepper-sprayed him in the face last July 6, video released by state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal shows. “I can’t breathe,” Ahr says over and again, both before and after the officers got him up and sat him handcuffed on the front steps of his Monmouth Street house following a seconds-long strug...