Posted on 12/14/2014 6:00:40 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
Chippewa Falls, WI — Dashcam video has been released that shows the disturbing last moments of a man’s life as he’s detained by a Chippewa Falls police officer on the way to the hospital.
29-year-old Casey Kressin died after suffering a severe asthma attack when the vehicle that was rushing him to the hospital was pulled over by a Chippewa Falls police officer.
After they were stopped, Kressin’s girlfriend immediately starts to beg the officer to take him to the hospital. The officer instead calls for an ambulance.
The couple was just 3 miles from the hospital when they were stopped. It took over 6 minutes for the ambulance to arrive.
During the stop, the officer callously listens to the begging couple’s pleas for help as Kressin slips further away. “He’s going to die! He can’t breathe!” screams Kressin’s girlfriend. We can hear Kressin begging for help as he falls to the ground, starving for air, “I can’t breathe…..I can’t breathe.”
The officer just stares at the couple, telling them to wait for the ambulance. By the time the ambulance arrives, it takes another 2 and 1/2 minutes before Kressin begins his journey to the hospital; sadly too much time had passed. Police say Kressin became unresponsive at that time and was pronounced dead at Saint Joseph’s Hospital.
Chippewa Falls Chief Wendy Stelter says she stands behind the officers who responded, saying that Kressin’s girlfriend should not have been allowed to drive the rest of the way because she was hysterical.
However, she was only hysterical because her boyfriend was dying and being kept from life saving treatment that could have saved his life.
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Oh goody.
Now we have an alternative to “At least the officer went home safely at the end of his shift”.
Now we can say “At least the officer didn’t get sued”.
From the time the car was pulled over to the time the ambulance loaded him and proceeded to the hospital was nearly EIGHT minutes. The officer should have recognized the distress the man was in and transported him himself.
What's left of the couple might disagree.
One stupid slogan is just as good as another when you’re agitating against law enforcement.
Years ago there was a former boxer who drove an ambulance in the little southern town in which I lived. He was transporting a heart attack patient to Memphis IN AN AMBULANCE. A Memphis cop tried to pull him over. He refused to stop and took the man to the ER. The cop came running in and mistook the patient for the driver and grabbed him by the arm. The ambulance driver knocked the cop on his ass. No charges were filed.
Sometimes law enforcement needs to be agitated against.
*jawdrop*
I'd still take my chances, though. If I stop, my husband dies. If I keep going, I MIGHT make it, or some Barney Fife might open fire.
This cop and the stupid police chief that said he did the right thing are not public servants but masters over the public. We need to get rid of these stupid people.
We are people governed by the people, not lorded over by the government. We elect stupid liberals and we get stupid overlords.
From the article.
“This week, we reported on the story of Helen Smith, who actually crashed into a cop car on her way to visit her gravely ill son in the hospital. Instead of detaining or beating her, the Utah State troopers drove her hundreds of miles to see her sick son.
If this Chippewa Falls officer would have applied the same level of discretion as the Utah troopers, he’d be the hero of this story, instead of the villain.”
The cop should have driven them himself and radioed to have the hospital ready for an emergency.
I was actually listening on a scanner several years ago when just about that exact thing happened. A kid was injured in a lawn mower accident. The deputy stopped them then rushed them to Flowers hospital.
I actually heard the dispatcher inform the deputy where to go to the emergency entrance and they would take him immediately into operating room 1.
“... should not have been allowed to drive the rest of the way because she was hysterical....”
Seems like she driving well enough up to the point of being stopped. I smell lawsuit in the offing.
No protests? No riots? No non-stop newscasts? No t-shirts and bumper stickers?
This is the kind of arrogance I do not like from cops, and is genuinely rampant. Not so much brutality.
God bless this man and his family. Awful thing to happen.
If it were I, I would not even pull over. At the least, I would drive right over that guy’s foot and leave him there.
I’ve seen those situations....cars pulled over at the side of busy highways. Here in Virginia, it’s the law that you must move over into the next lane when you see a cop at the side of the road, but that’s not always possible in heavy traffic.
Absolutely, but expect a bad ass kicking when you stop at the emergency room.
Because the urge to follow the law was stronger than the urge to not
stop and save her husband.
It’s perfectly clear that the cop should have shot her. He didn’t need to shoot the boyfriend, he was going to die anyway. Problem solved. Another great day for law enforcement.
After all, we just can’t allow this sort of behavior in our fair city, we don’t care how many people have to die.
Yes, calling 911 to tell them what’s going on is an excellent idea.
In which case, the cop would probably have shot you.
Fine with me if my husband is alive.
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