The first rule one learns at EMT school is you cannot enter a place where violence has happened until you get an okay from the police. You cannot do it. If you do, you will no longer have that job because you endangered all members of the emergency response group. They could not approach that man until the police said it was safe to do so.
If the police screwed up, that is their problem, not the emergency response group.
Non sequitur much?
I think everyone is blaming the cops and not the paramedics/EMTs.
As a former paramedic, I concur.
Whenever we responded to a shooting we parked away from the scene and waited until it was secure. No one is served by EMS adding to the body count.
“If the police screwed up, that is their problem, not the emergency response group.”
I think that that’s the point of the article. The cops are to blame, not the EMT’s.
Let the lawsuits against Mexico City Del Norte begin.