Posted on 02/08/2014 6:43:00 AM PST by Jed Eckert
...as Off-Duty Officer Begs for Help Trying to Resuscitate Crash Victims
A Florida police officer is under fire for failing to help dying car crash victims — and it was all caught on tape by a dashboard camera.
Off-duty Miami Police Sergeant Javier Ortiz came upon the car crash scene that ended up killing two University of Miami graduate students, Ying Chen and Hao Liu, according to WFOR-TV.
With medical equipment in his car, Ortiz jumped into action to try and help the victims.
“I immediately started CPR on the female. It was just me. I had no one to work on the male and I was waiting for help to arrive,” Ortiz told WFOR.
Authorities did arrive but it was the help part that was still missing.
Pinecrest Officer Ana Carrasco arrived on the scene shortly afterward. According to WFOR-TV, Ortiz directed her to work on trying to resuscitate the man.
“I got no response. She just stood there,” told the news station...............
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Our tax dollars at work.
BFL
Pretty sad. I guess she didn’t know how to give CPR. 5 days suspension is an insult.
affirmative action at work
Just. Wow.
Hand in the badge and gun, sweetie,you need to be doing something—anything—else.
Well, at least Pinecrest Officer Ana Carrasco went home to her family that night.
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I think the cop was waiting for firefighter/em personnel to show up so he could choke and arrest him.
If he cop did try to help he might have gotten confused if the victim twitched. The cop might have yelled “resisting arrest”and then beat up the victim or shot him.
I do realize that not all cops are bad. But the public image will only get worse unless good cops take incompetence, cover-ups and criminal behavior in the police force seriously, and that means real sanctions and punishment. The rise of SWAT raids, the militarization of police, and acceptance of federal money is NOT a step in the right direction.
Decades ago while during my 2.5 years as a police officer, I went to a shooting in a bar.
One guy wounded, sitting them clutching his shoulder, bleeding.
Another guy on the floor, gurgling, shot through the left eye and upper chest area. The guy on the ground was coughing blood and basically bleeding out.
I did NOT try and stop the blood loss, I did not try to clear his airway, I did not try mouth-to-mouth when he stopped breathing.
This bar was in a bad part of town and these criminals would have killed me if given a chance. There was no way I was going to a) turn my back on the crowd that gathered, b) try and save the life of a low-life violent criminal (found out later his record included several ag-assaults and rape, and c) not going to touch some guy with who-knows what diseases spewing forth from his wounds or in his fluids.
Cruel and heartless? Maybe. But I didn’t/don’t feel guilty about it at all.
Some thug was yelling at me; “Do something, do something! You are the pole-leece!”
I replied; “Yup, I am the police, I ain’t no doctor. If you want to help him I will tell you what to do.”
He ran out.
Further proof that the police cannot be counted upon under any circumstances.......be prepared!
Correction, he should be she.
That’s crappy. When my Sister was a cop she saved a man choking on a hotdog and was given a award for it. She didn’t even think twice about doing it.
As for freezing up. What is she going to do in a real bad incident?
In 25 years as a firefighter I saw police officers attempting to do CPR on very few occasions. The last time... we showed up on scene and several officers were frantically doing ineffective CPR on a morbidly obese male. His hands were still handcuffed behind his back and there were several tazer barbs still embedded in his skin at various locations. After he was subdued the police left him face down in a hallway. It was several minutes before they realized that he had suffocated. At that time they realized that maybe their jobs were in jeopardy and the heroics started.
She was on the lookout for stray dogs to shoot.
To her credit, no one was bitten by a dog during the incident.
Well, she could be Secretary of State, for instance.
I had a cop tell me a story about a drug overdose victim that stopped breathing after vomiting out a can of Spaghettios. He didn’t try to resuscitate him. He didn’t feel guilty. He waited for the firemen.
the fact is that ANYONE can do cpr so why weren't the on lookers doing it?....
its pretty easy to sit back and criticize someone for not getting their clothes bloody trying to resuscitate an accident victim, but darn few people would jump in to do it....
Cops are trained in CPR. But many wont do it. I guess its up to the officers.
I cant blame them for not doing it in a bar after a barfight or a driveby shooting, when bad guys are still lurking about. But at a car crash, when one officer is already doing it, I cant see why not help.
BTW.....new CPR standards call for not doing mouth to mouth anymore.
She was looking for their dog to shoot.
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