Editor's note: The video may be disturbing to some viewers.

LOCKPORT, N.Y. — New York Attorney General Letitia James released police body camera and dashboard camera footage Friday as part of its ongoing investigation into the death of Troy Hodge in Lockport.

Officer: “I've got to check you out. Do you have any weapons on you, Troy?”

Hodge: “Don't kill me, man.”

Officer: “No one is going to kill you, Troy.”

That exchange came less than 10 minutes before Troy Hodge stopped responding to Lockport police at a home on Park Avenue on June 17, 2019.

Officer: "Stop resisting. You are under arrest. Stop moving."

“About five minutes into his 26-minute video, you see Troy Hodge, 159lb man, on the ground,” said Joseph D. Morath Jr., the lawyer representing the Hodge family. “Two pairs of handcuffs, four officers on his person, and for some reason, an officer — we don't know exactly who — decides to put their foot on Troy's neck for about 70 seconds when he's clearly not a threat to anyone.”

Officer: “He's doing fine over here. He's breathing. We're going to get him some medical attention now.”

But a minute and a half later...

Officer: "Troy. He's sleeping now. He was on something. He will come back too."

Officer: "Oh, yeah, I'm not worried.”

Officers flipped him over about a minute later, and saw he had no pulse. They then put him up on a stretcher as EMTs stood by.

Officer: “Yeah, he was just breathing.”

"When that officer takes his foot off his neck, Hodge never moves or utters another word, and soon thereafter, they realize he's not breathing," Morath said. "The paramedics show up in a panic and say 'get the cuffs off him, get the cuffs off him,' and what are they doing? They're joking about whether or not he defecated himself."

EMTs: “He's not breathing. He's not breathing. Take them off. Push him and get the cuffs off — the cuffs off now. We have no pulse, no nothing, guys.”

From the time body cameras start rolling to that point is about 10 minutes — 10 minutes that his mother Fatima stood by watching the whole thing unfold.

Officer: “This is all for his own safety and ours too. When he comes after us, we have to make sure he...”

Mother: “You shouldn't have choked him. I'm not saying you police choked him, but someone choked my child. He's out of it. Why did you grab his face like that? I don't understand, officer. That's why I told you don't kill my child.”

Officer: “Nobody's going to kill anybody.”

She's the one who called police, saying she was concerned about her son, who she thought had mixed muscle relaxers and Suboxone and was hallucinating.

Mother: "He said, ‘somebody’s in the house. Somebody’s in the house.’ I say, ‘no they ain’t.’"

Officer: "He's hallucinating."

Mother: "He could've killed me. That's why I called you all.”

The attorney general's office released four videos and one audio recording. The videos while Hodge was alive are all from Niagara County sheriff's deputies, not from Lockport police, who were initially called to the scene. 

"As much as we would love to have a clear understanding of what occurred, we will never know because none of the four Lockport police officers activated their body cams, in clear violation of their general orders,” Morath said.

The only video from a Lockport police officer is after the incident, when he is talking with a woman who lawyers say is Nicole, Hodge's fiancé.

Officer: “He tried to stab me with a knife, and we were in a little bit of a scuffle. I don't know what got into him or happened. We tried to use the taser and it didn't work.”

"They interview Nicole and magically they remember to turn on this body cam that they either didn't have before or didn't work before, whatever their excuse is," said Morath.

The attorney general's office told Spectrum News it released all the video footage it has, and it doesn't know why there isn't any video of the altercation when police arrived on scene.

Officer: "We were just trying to get him some help, but he kept running around talking about a shotgun."

According to the police, Hodge suffered a medical issue after struggling with officers. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Lawyers tell Spectrum News the autopsy report notes extended physical exertion.

Since the incident, the mayor's office says every police officer has been given body cameras and iPads for live access to mental health counselors while responding to mental health calls. The 2021 budget also calls for additional de-escalation and mental health training.

"When police officers arrived, Troy Hodge had not committed a crime,” said Morath. “He was not committing a crime. He was standing in his driveway, clearly having a medical emergency.”

The Niagara County district attorney, sheriff's office, and Lockport Police did not immediately return requests for comment.

As for the four officers involved in the incident, Spectrum News reported the officers were placed on administrative leave for three days, which the department says is standard protocol.

The Hodge family is suing those officers, the city, and police department.

The attorney general's office took over the investigation in October 2019.