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.
This almost identical thing happened to my beautician. She was at a party and her estranged husband walked in with his girlfriend. She was rather intoxicated and the two women got into a fight. The police were called, took her to lockup with numerous charges, including intoxication . Several hours later she was throwing up, intense pain and semi unconscious. She was begging for help and was told to settle down and go to sleep. Other jail mates were screaming to help her.. she was dead the next morning with a ruptured appendix.
FAST:
Face: facial drooping, partial paralysis, twisting
Arms: weakness in arms, inability to hold both arms up.
Speech: slurred, babble, gibberish ...
Time: to call 911 ... and hope you don’t get cops.
Because they’re too damn dumb to remember FAST.
You have to be out of your mind to be a cop in Minnesota, the way that police are treated in the crap state, while at the same time, felons are almost worshiped.
why is he driving with blurred vision? If it was bad enough to cause him to leave early it must have been going on for awhile. If you have trouble seeing it is a good idea to not drive, especially in metro traffic.
Muting the body camera is indicative of malice.
Any police officer who at any time while on duty messes his or her body cam should be instantly fired with a recommendation never to work in law enforcement again anywhere.
The only exception is a malfunction which must be reported immediately.
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The cop made a dangerous assumption and it’s going to be a very costly one. “Your tax dollars at work” should not be paying for it.
Anyone you would not “suspect”?
I don’t see it as indicative of malice. I see it as indicative of a lazy person who made stupid mistakes and was slowly coming to that conclusion.
Malice is a very different driving force than fear of having laziness and stupidity uncovered. But in this case, the end result is the same. And the taxpayers are going to pay for it.
As someone who gets migraines that will put me under the desk that is what I would have done but I assume the gentleman did not get strokes habitually and so probably did not know exactly how bad it could get.
But it need not have been going on for a while. It can hit very fast and hard.
My grand dad honored and respected the police when he was a kid in NYC - now days, not so much. I was stopped once just because the cop wanted a date.
When he told his boss at the post office he had to leave early because of blurred vision you would think someone would have thought to help him.
I’ve read of several cases of people suffering from diabetes or strokes who end up getting treated like drunk drivers, beaten, neglected etc. Police must be better trained and held responsible when they blow it, like they did in this case.
” I was stopped once just because the cop wanted a date.”
Odd, that’s never happened to me. All they ever wanted was my money.............
Yeah, he said he’s seen me on the same road and stopped me because he thought I had a brake light out (I didn’t) then started chatting me up.
Mr. Floyds family received 27 million.
This person family should get twice that much.
Guy at my job had a stroke.
It was obviously a stroke.
Cops show up and insist on a field sobriety test.
I walk up and mention he has hemispherical impairment, left side impaired.
They finally take a good look and tell the ambulance to finally go.
Took forever to get them to do so.
Nobody actually listened and looked at the symptoms until I got heated about it.
Even the ambulance was taking their sweet time.
Someone who trained in deescalation.
Time for spouse to lawyer up.
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