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Patient shot and killed at Orlando hospital after threatening staff
nbcnews.com ^ | Oct.01.2018 | Kalhan Rosenblatt

Posted on 10/01/2018 7:38:51 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

A patient at an Orlando, Florida, hospital who claimed to have a firearm Monday morning was shot and killed by police in the emergency room, officials said.

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1 posted on 10/01/2018 7:38:51 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“I think if patients nearby hadn’t needed care right away, we would have talked to him longer,”


2 posted on 10/01/2018 7:41:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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I guess he won’t be doing THAT anymore.


3 posted on 10/01/2018 7:44:11 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

First, I will do no harm...................oh, wait............


4 posted on 10/01/2018 7:45:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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To: BenLurkin

Some residents wanted experience dealing with gun shot wounds and the police obliged.


5 posted on 10/01/2018 7:45:46 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: BenLurkin
No weapon was discovered and no one else was hurt.
6 posted on 10/01/2018 7:46:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Suicide by cop.


7 posted on 10/01/2018 7:55:40 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper
When I was a kid, about 5 years old, I smacked my head on an iron railing playing blind man's bluff and split it open. My mom panicked and rushed me to the emergency room at a hospital in Camden, NJ. You may have heard of Camden NJ. It's not very nice. It wasn't any better in the 70s.

Whoa Nellie! That was an education. Lots of people wasted out of their minds, serious trauma being mostly ignored like it was nothing, etc. One guy got up, fell over drunk and a giant knife fell out of his pocket. My mom decide to find another hospital.

8 posted on 10/01/2018 7:56:12 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

well, bye


9 posted on 10/01/2018 7:59:55 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

My nephew is an RN, used to work in the ER. He was injured several times by patients who were mentally unbalanced, on drugs (or both). Had his shoulder dislocated, had rib injuries, etc. He saved lives in the ER but it could be rough dealing with patients.

He’s in an admin job now and I kind of wish he was still working with patients because he was in his element and very good at his job. In spite of the crazy patients, he had others return to thank him for saving their lives and even had his picture taken with a few. I guess you can only take so much though, and the huge pay raise he got for moving behind a desk didn’t hurt either.


10 posted on 10/01/2018 8:00:52 AM PDT by Stevenc131
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http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3692374/posts

An earlier posting if anyone cares to scan the comments there on.


11 posted on 10/01/2018 8:00:59 AM PDT by deport
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To: deport

You may have posted the wrong link.


12 posted on 10/01/2018 8:10:16 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Our hospital pays an off duty policeman to be at our ER every hour of every day.

Its a huge expense. And we are not even a trauma hospital. THOSE guys have more gang retribution stuff going on in their Emergency Department.

The US cities have become third world countries.


13 posted on 10/01/2018 8:11:21 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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I know that hospital and have been in its emergency room with family several times over the years. It is the hospital that treated and saved many of the Pulse nightclub shooting victims and usually provides treatment for Orlando’s slums. In short, if any Orlando hospital is ready to deal with a dangerous patient, it is ORMC.


14 posted on 10/01/2018 8:37:33 AM PDT by Rockingham
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Cured! On the spot !!


15 posted on 10/01/2018 8:57:48 AM PDT by Delta 21 (.....been here this long you actually expect me to read the article....)
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Hope he wasn’t an AA..


16 posted on 10/01/2018 8:59:27 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Delta 21

No relapse!.......guaranteed!..................


17 posted on 10/01/2018 8:59:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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To: deport

Wrong link?..................


18 posted on 10/01/2018 9:00:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
So the police shot and killed a man who "claimed" to have a gun.

Exactly what "threatening" movements did he make that caused a police officer to fire his weapon and kill this man? The officer could not have seen a firearm as no weapon was found. How exactly did this man pose life threatening danger to the police or anyone else without a weapon?

I guess in a nutshell the American public is now ok with simple "gestures" or "threatening" movements being justification for LETHAL FORCE.

This is insane. The police are now judge, jury and executioner and they are just glancing over the first two. What worries me more than the actions of the police is the fact that so many people think this is ok.

19 posted on 10/01/2018 9:17:05 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Red Badger; Blennos

Wrong link.

Yep I meant to be posting to another thread.
Thanks.


20 posted on 10/01/2018 9:20:45 AM PDT by deport
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