Posted on 04/26/2015 3:50:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Lee County deputy is off the job after an internal report reveals he didn't respond to a 911 call so he could eat lunch.
The investigation surrounds a 911 call from a home on Dryden Circle on March 13th. The caller wasn't speaking, so dispatch alerted Deputy Yvan Fernandez.
But instead of responding, reports show Fernandez went to eat lunch instead. The woman caller was having a medical emergency and later died.
"He made a decision at that moment of time that his lunch and what he had on his personal plate, pun intended I suppose, was more important than that 911 call," Sheriff Mike Scott said.
GPS tracking on his patrol car put Fernandez at Raider's Pizza and Wings on Palm Beach Boulevard six minutes before he was dispatched at 1:11 p.m. At 1:19, dispatch updated Fernandez about the call and he responded "copy." At 1:40 p.m. Fernandez asked another deputy who met him for lunch to take the call, who got to the home on Dryden Circle at 2:04 p.m. Fernandez finished his lunch and stopped at another location to use the restroom, getting to the home at 2:21 p.m.
"Could we have saved this lady? I'll never be able to answer that question. Would getting there quicker have hurt anything? Of course not," Scott said.
When interviewed about what happened, Fernandez said he called the 911 caller several times, but she didn't answer. He then decided to return to his lunch, telling investigators he "believed this type of response and response time was satisfactory."
What kind of pizza was it?
What kind of pizza? And what’s wrong with doughnuts?
If it was medical, why didn’t they dispatch EMS/Fire Dept.?
sounds like just another day in the Obama administration. Emergency Emergency!!! Obama: ahh, uhmm, well ahh, let me get back to this later, i have a golfing appt.
Heard he stopped for a muffin then decided to have pizza.
When seconds count...
Oink
911 is a joke.
A 911 to eat lunch? Oh.
if he’s union, doe he gets an unfettered lunch hour ?
The $64,000 question. However some places apparently do send police first.
I’ll bet dollars to donuts the other Deputy this A$$hat cop waited for was of the female persuasion.
He will claim he has an eating disorder that makes him compulsive about eating and therefore he just had to eat food, food, oh sweet food.
We know she was an affirmative action hire.
The article clearly states that the caller was not speaking. Therefore, it had to have been LATER that it was determined to be a Medical emergency.
It was a 911 call. The wanker copper had a duty to respond but decided to stuff his fat face first instead, the sodding git.
Oops meant he.
If only Obamacare had been in place, her life and his job might have been saved...
The Supreme Curt(may G*d rot their souls) ruled cops have no duty to the life of a mere taxpayer.
However, even in the “light” of said SCOTUS Ruling, when told by the Dispatcher to respond, to not so do may involve culpable negligence?
That assumes a uniformed Ubermensch can ever be guilty of any offence against a mere Untermensch. All the more so, in light of the Donut Eater having a Hispanic surname, and the at-risk Untermensch being a female.
For those drooling Libtards(Yes, we know you are lurking), look up the position of a Hispanic female.
Then look up the position of a Muslim female.
Finally, remember that Spain was a Muslim slave state for some 700 years.
If a call comes that does not have a caller that states a reason, police ARE sent first.
I got a visit like that once from police when my cat had “called” 911 by stepping on the emergency button on my phone.
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