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.
In my neighborhood the fire department and ambulances are typically responding to ‘bum down’ calls 90% of the time... So they just automatically assume that everybody is either drunk or doped up... My fear, and it’s a legitimate one... Having a medical emergency like a stroke or heart attack and then being treated like the typical bums that they deal with daily... They just give you a shot of Naloxone and then go on their merry way to the next ‘bum down’ call.
A grandfather was diabetic. He had a blood sugar event while driving and the police assumed he was drunk. His wife found him unconscious in the police drunk tank.
Not what the story says or even suggests.
We had a few stroke patients in the families over the years.
All have been ischemic.
Most got help within that golden hour and recovered, though with some limitations.
I’m damned if I can understand why the gentleman in the accident wasn’t sent to the ER for evaluation. And why the officer on scene wasn’t overruled by a superior.
Who would be a cop in that environment?
Impaired driving is a big money maker all around. The courts get paid fees, the cops get overtime testifying, the lawyers get paid defending, the non-profits get paid to provide court ordered “education,” the state gets fines plus all the “fees” that are somehow different than the fines to reinstate a license.
I would accept the idea that the high cost of enriching the government is a deterrent except it does nothing to stop the habitual drunk who drives extremely impaired without a license. He has no money to extort so he is arrested, then released a day later to repeat the cycle until he hurts someone.
The family has filed a $120 million lawsuit.
I wonder why he didn’t want to go to the hospital to get checked out when he experienced blurred vision while at work.
There may be more to this story in addition to LE’s negligence.
I suspect they are trained by older cops.
He went to work with blurred vision and a headache. He crashed on the way home. Bad deal all around.
It’s Minnesota The police have a lot of ignorant Moslems from Somali
Must have been near quitting time................
I’m glad to learn about the efficacy of neuropathy treatments for you. That information encourages others to seek help. I think you were right to worry. The police see so many under the influence that without reminders or in-services they may be ready to see what they expect to see.
Oh sure it is. They protect and serve the ruling class.
Who else would train them?
That should be:
1) "Impossible" ... in that the public servants don't have control over that.
2) A felony, worth 10-20 years in prison.
Except that it does not say that. It says he left work early with those symptoms.
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