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Minnesota postal worker dies in county lockup after police mistake stroke for intoxication
Not The Bee ^ | October 14, 2025 | Mister Retrops

Posted on 10/14/2025 11:25:50 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

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.


41 posted on 10/14/2025 12:15:35 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Red Badger

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.


42 posted on 10/14/2025 12:15:51 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

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.


43 posted on 10/14/2025 12:17:14 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with riminalNixon?)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

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.


44 posted on 10/14/2025 12:17:37 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: rlmorel

Muting the body camera is indicative of malice.


45 posted on 10/14/2025 12:17:43 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

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.

L


46 posted on 10/14/2025 12:18:55 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.l)
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To: Red Badger

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.


47 posted on 10/14/2025 12:27:46 PM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: GingisK

Anyone you would not “suspect”?


48 posted on 10/14/2025 12:32:35 PM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: NorthMountain

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.


49 posted on 10/14/2025 12:32:50 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: shelterguy
I will agree he should have either called for an Uber or had someone come pick him up.

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.

50 posted on 10/14/2025 12:33:12 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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This is not a new problem.
51 posted on 10/14/2025 12:34:24 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: Red Badger

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.


52 posted on 10/14/2025 12:39:38 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

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.


53 posted on 10/14/2025 12:41:21 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Red Badger

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.


54 posted on 10/14/2025 12:46:48 PM PDT by skyman
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” 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.............


55 posted on 10/14/2025 12:51:21 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

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.


56 posted on 10/14/2025 1:05:58 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Red Badger

Mr. Floyds family received 27 million.

This person family should get twice that much.


57 posted on 10/14/2025 1:14:05 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: Red Badger

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.


58 posted on 10/14/2025 1:19:01 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: equaviator

Someone who trained in deescalation.


59 posted on 10/14/2025 1:24:35 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Red Badger

Time for spouse to lawyer up.


60 posted on 10/14/2025 1:35:18 PM PDT by chopperk
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