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To: bluecat6
It is not possible for non-EMS trained personnel to tell the dead from wounded. Police officers can not do that.

So then the police officers at Sandy Hook Elementary should not have carried those two wounded first graders out to their cruiser and driven them to the hospital to try to save their lives???

148 posted on 02/06/2013 8:28:04 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Not if trained EMS personnel were available or en-route.

Did the police have the victims stable before transporting? Where the victims in shock? Could they go into shock during transport? Was there trauma where moving the victim may not have been the right move - such as a spinal injury from bullets or from falling down? You move a victim with a spinal injury that is not stabilized you may just be killing them.

Police should have stabilized obvious bleeding - the primary cause of death (about 70%) of all gunshot victims.

Police rushing victims to the hospital in a squad car when EMS is on the way is nothing less than reckless.

So if all this happened this way - lawyers should be circling the Newtown Police headquarters.


151 posted on 02/06/2013 8:48:08 PM PST by bluecat6 ("All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don't say the story isn't accurate. ")
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