ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A newly-filed lawsuit alleges the City of Rochester and the ambulance company AMR failed to provide medical care to a Rochester man – and he died as a result.

News10NBC first broke the story last fall that Julian Coleman was removed by police from an AMR ambulance while en route to the hospital.

The lawsuit claims that ambulance workers and Rochester Police officers violated Coleman’s civil rights.

The lawsuit says Coleman called 911 because he couldn’t breathe and, inside the ambulance, he panicked and grabbed for one of the employees. that’s when the EMTs called police to have him removed.

Video shows Coleman collapsing within moments of getting off the ambulance along Seneca Avenue. He was face-down on a city sidewalk for nearly two and a half minutes in front of EMTs and officers before someone came over to help him. The lawsuit claims Coleman’s body had already stopped sending oxygen to his brain. He was eventually loaded back on to an ambulance and taken to the hospital. He never regained consciousness, and he died two weeks later, which the lawsuit blames on the lack of oxygen. He was hospitalized in intensive care on a respirator, diagnosed with an anoxic brain injury, and taken off life support on Dec. 15. You can see the video here.

In one of the videos, you can hear an EMT say the man jumped at her, demanded oxygen, and grabbed her arm. The man tries to explain to the responding police officer saying, “I was freaking out, you would freak out too if you couldn’t breathe.” AMR and the New York State Department of Health are investigating.

Two EMTs and two officers are named in the civil suit, and so are their employers: the ambulance company American Medical Response, and the City of Rochester.

In total, there are five counts that argue negligence under state law and a violation of Coleman’s civil rights under the Constitution.

The family’s lawyer, Stephen Schwarz, tells News10NBC they have two medical professionals and an AMR expert ready to testify.

“We feel extremely confident that the medicine is very straightforward here that he died because he was deprived of oxygen. If he had been given oxygen in the ambulance, he never would have even lost consciousness,” Schwarz said. “This is not an uncommon thing that they have to deal with, they’re trained. The training is not to set people out on the street and have them die.”

Schwarz says they believe a civil suit is the best way to bring this forward. The only outcome here is money — but Schwarz says that’s secondary for the family, who want to figure out exactly what happened, and why their loved one died.

The city and AMR have declined comment. One of the EMTs was fired after Coleman’s death came to light.