An immigrant is suing the police for saving too long. 

24-year-old Matejush Fiyalkowski, suffering from bipolar personality disorder, sued the police, who, in his opinion, saved him for too long after trying to drown in the pool during a bipolar attack.

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He claims that they left him underwater for more than two minutes and stopped a lifeguard who intended to immediately jump into the pool to save a man, writes Daily Mail.

Fiyalkowski, who does not know how to swim, was hired to manage the pool in Riverside apartments in Virginia on May 2016 of the year.

At that time, he only spoke a little English, the guy came to America from Poland on the international summer work program for young people.

The man never had psychological problems, but on the third day of his work in Riverside apartments there was an unexpected episode.

He began to talk to himself in Polish, he fought with the guests of the pool. The officers called the police after he broke the bracelet from one girl and did not allow her to enter the pool.

When eight police officers arrived at the scene, Fiyalkowski began to whistle at the whistle given to him at work, shouted: “I am a rescuer,” and began to pray in Polish.

Militiamen asked everyone to leave the basin zone and called in a Polish-speaking officer, as well as a neighbor in the room Fiyalkovsky, who also spoke Polish.

But the guy continued to ignore everyone around him, threw his cell phone into the pool, climbed the rescue tower and kept screaming.

Then the man entered the pool and grabbed his hands at the ventilation holes at the bottom, trying to keep himself under water. Witnesses say Fiyalkowski was in the water for two and a half minutes.

According to the lawyer, the officers did nothing to stop him, although there were quite a lot of them and they kept the situation under control. For some time they looked at a man under water, then his colleague Sean Brooks rushed into the water to rescue Fiyalkovsky, and two officers also entered the pool to help.

The incident was videotaped by one of the witnesses.

After that, the police gave him first aid, waiting for the arrival of physicians. The man had to be reanimated with a defibrillator, as his heart and breathing stopped.

Witnesses said that the police did not allow Brooks to enter the pool to rescue the guy until Fiyalkovsky stopped moving.

The hospital report states that the officers told the doctors that Fiyalkowski was under water for only 30-60 seconds.

After the incident, the man spent more than a week in the hospital, he said, he was billed for medical services in excess of 100 000 dollars.

He was then placed in a psychiatric hospital, where he remained for six days. Fiyalkowski had already returned to Poland and said that he had no other attack.

He claims that the police actually allowed him to drown in front of their eyes, which is why he filed a lawsuit against the police.

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