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...............
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Well, in this case, I guess we’ll never know, will we? One pleading Samaritan, two victims, and an idle “Public Servant.”
On a day that I took off my crew was quite upset. They showed up on a scene where a man had lost his keys in a storm sewer grate. He pulled the grate up and tried to reach them. Unfortunately he slipped into the hole and got stuck and drowned. When my crew showed up his legs were sticking out of the hole and they were still twitching. Several cops were standing around doing nothing. They said that they thought it might be a crime scene and they just wanted us to confirm that he was dead. My crew pulled him out of the hole and started CPR. They got a rhythm back, but the man died later anyway.
I am assuming that you are not intentionally trying to twist my words. But in 25 years I saw police attempting CPR half a dozen times at the most. We knew something weird was going on immediately when we saw them doing CPR on the incident that I mentioned.
The few times that I saw police attempting CPR it was ineffective... so their efforts were in vain. As far as reviving someone who has been in a car crash with CPR... in my career I never saw one person revived successfully after major trauma. So we are arguing over semantics here... it most likely wouldn't have made any difference if the woman police officer had tried to do CRP on the other victim...
However I have seen a number of incidents where if the police or anyone else had made some attempt to secure the person's airway it most likely would have saved someones life. Just carefully securing the victims head so that their neck and airway are in a neutral position is all that it takes sometimes.
Remember your "ABC"s, Airway, Breathing, and Circulation. That is what keeps people alive. The airway needs to be unobstructed. Assisting with breathing is the next most important. And circulation which most often means stopping someone's bleeding by applying direct pressure in a trauma situation.
Female cops might be a nice decoration on the force, but in the field they are fairly useless and just serve to drain resources that could be better spent on real officers.
This guy turned out to be having a type 2 diabetes related crash, and came to as soon as we got him on his back. It was still a good learning experience for me.
On behalf of the whole world. Thank you for no longer being a cop.
I have been around a few bar shootings ans I have never seen a cop try to save the victim, but I have argued with them about me trying to help.
Then I hope you understand while I walk off and go about my business, ignoring the cop bleeding out. Why should anyone value you, when you ALL clearly don’t value us?
Remember the innocent victims of the Dorner hunt.
“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?”
Shoot two women delivering newspapers, probably.
You apparently side with thugs in a shooting in a bar in a nasty part of town and have no problem turning your back on a loud and nasty crowd where you have no idea if the shooter is still there. . .go ahead. . .turn your back on the crowd/shooter. . .all to try and save some violent criminal.
Go for it.
Have a nice day.
Buh-buy.
Nope. Just don’t trust a cop any farther than you do thugs. One and the same.
See Post 71.
So, here are your options: a) act like an angry little child and reply because you want to argue, hurl insults and your ego requires you to get the last word, or b) be an adult and let it go because we have nothing else to say to each other.
I’m betting you pick option ‘a’.
Prove me wrong. . .if you can.
Have a nice day.
Buh-Buy
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