Posted by
The New THOMA$ REPORT on Saturday, February 18, 2012 6:20:41 PM
But it does. A man was pulled over and was unresponsive when the cops told him to put his hands up. He wasn’t attacking them. He was just not moving, and therefore was not obeying their orders. So they dragged him out of the car and beat him up, one of them plainly kicking him in the head before they discovered the Insulin in his pocket. Even so, they made him stand up and blow into a breathalizer even though they were pretty certain he was in diabetic shock. After having it confirmed, they laughed like it was some kind of a joke. It was not. One time when I was working as a paramedic, while off duty, I came upon an unresponsive man stopped half in and half out of a service station. I called the cops and had to argue hard to get them to take him to jail by way of the hospital, “just in case” he wasn’t really drunk.
So they did and found he was really in a diabetic coma, which could have meant his death if they delayed much longer. Was anybody disciplined? Doubtful. The only reason they listened to me at all was because I was a certified paramedic. Otherwise he would have gone directly to jail, where he would have died, like one Indian did one time. We got a call to the county jail for an unconscious drunk. Only problem was, he wasn’t drunk, he was dead. He was not dead when they brought him in. He had gone into a bar cold sober and ordered a beer; then gone to the restroom, where he was later discovered unconscious. The cops, thinking he was just dead drunk and not asking any questions to determine if, indeed, he WAS drunk, took him to jail, where he died. I don’t know if any cops were disciplined then, either. But it DOES happen a lot more often than they report. People talk about training cops to recognize this, but apparently don't do anything about it, since they do this all the time. (
The Blaze)