Posted on 10/14/2025 11:25:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
The family of Kingsley Bimpong filed a wrongful death suit against Eagan and Dakota County police in federal court after officers arrested the man for intoxication when he was having a stroke.
KSTP reports the 50-year old man left work early on November 16, 2024 with a headache and blurred vision. On the way home, he turned his car into oncoming traffic, crashing into the center median.
Police at the scene noted that Bimpong had aphasia and weak muscles, which they assumed was due to drugs.
But just to be sure, the officer requested a Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE) to check him.
DRE protocol involves a 12-step evaluation to determine a person's cause of impairment, which includes a check for vital signs and three separate checks for pulse. However, when [Sgt] Moseng requested this evaluation, [DRE officer] Jensen only partially completed three of the steps and did not take Bimpong's pulse once, the complaint alleges.
The evaluator signed off on probable drugs and asked for a warrant to get a blood test. When EMS arrived to get the blood test, they recommended Bimpong be taken to the hospital.
Body camera footage even shows the arresting officer worried that the man might be having a stroke, but then things get odd:
Body camera footage captures Moseng suggesting several times that Bimpong was in medical distress, but at every turn, Jensen refused to perform a full evaluation or call for an ambulance. The complaint alleges the officers muted their body cameras at various points, including one instance in which Jensen muted his device in the midst of Moseng bringing up the possibility of a stroke.
'Before you got there, I was like, "Is this dude having a stro — ,'" Moseng said before the audio cuts off.
Six and half hours later when Bimpong was lying in his cell unresponsive and cold to the touch, they finally decided to take the poor man to the hospital.
An autopsy revealed he died of an intracerebral hemorrhage, and a toxicology panel was negative for any substances that might cause impairment.
One thing nearly all highway police do is assume any condition is drugs or alcohol.Very bad how they treat people.And just always look for that conviction or ticket
This was deliberate malfeasance.
I hope the family owns the police dept.
You would think that part of their training is that it’s not safe for them to assume too much.
Yeah, some of them will be just drunk but even then there can be medical issues caused by the crash that are not apparent on first glance.
Keeps the police out of hot water by no longer requiring them to make evaluations they are not qualified to do and keeps people alive. Sounds like a win/win.
There’s gonna be a huge payday......................
> KSTP reports the 50-year old man left work early on November 16, 2024 with a headache and blurred vision. <
Serious negligence on the part of the police, for sure. But to be fair, some of the responsibility is his. If you have blurred vision, don’t get behind the wheel of a car.
Oops.
Inexcusable...
Cop(s) should be fired...
IMO, there’s some liability attached to the supervisor who let him leave at the wheel of a vehicle after reporting those symptoms. Where I worked, I’d have been fired if I didn’t immediately call the paramedics for one of my crew who was having headaches and blurred vision.
When you ar in the midst of a stroke or a subarachnoid hemorrhage, which this sounds more likely to be, you are not able to think clearly. If those around you don’t intervene things go badly.
“””left work early on November 16, 2024 with a headache and blurred vision. On the way home, he turned his car into oncoming traffic, crashing into the center median. “””
So he drove his mail truck all day with blurred vision.
Are you suggesting that the police were on illegal drugs to have missed obvious signs of a stroke?
This is Tim’s Walzy World.
Who cares? /s
Good point.
I have to disagree.
This was not malfeasance or deliberate brutality. It was a combination of incompetence (not following outlined procedures) and stupidity.
In either case, there will be a lawsuit, and the family will win.
And I don’t see that as a bad thing, as long as the police involved are fired and the department reviews their processes so it doesn’t happen again.
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My mother-in-law’s boyfriend died of that.
He was getting ready to go to a doctor’s appointment when he suddenly said, “I feel dizzy.” and dropped dead on the way to the bedroom to lie down..........
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