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Man Dies During Traffic Stop From Asthma Attack as Cop Refuses to Let them Drive to Hospital
The Free Thought Project ^ | December 13, 2014 | Matt Agorist

Posted on 12/14/2014 6:00:40 PM PST by Slings and Arrows

Chippewa Falls, WI — Dashcam video has been released that shows the disturbing last moments of a man’s life as he’s detained by a Chippewa Falls police officer on the way to the hospital.

29-year-old Casey Kressin died after suffering a severe asthma attack when the vehicle that was rushing him to the hospital was pulled over by a Chippewa Falls police officer.

After they were stopped, Kressin’s girlfriend immediately starts to beg the officer to take him to the hospital. The officer instead calls for an ambulance.

The couple was just 3 miles from the hospital when they were stopped. It took over 6 minutes for the ambulance to arrive.

During the stop, the officer callously listens to the begging couple’s pleas for help as Kressin slips further away. “He’s going to die! He can’t breathe!” screams Kressin’s girlfriend. We can hear Kressin begging for help as he falls to the ground, starving for air, “I can’t breathe…..I can’t breathe.”

The officer just stares at the couple, telling them to wait for the ambulance. By the time the ambulance arrives, it takes another 2 and 1/2 minutes before Kressin begins his journey to the hospital; sadly too much time had passed. Police say Kressin became unresponsive at that time and was pronounced dead at Saint Joseph’s Hospital.

Chippewa Falls Chief Wendy Stelter says she stands behind the officers who responded, saying that Kressin’s girlfriend should not have been allowed to drive the rest of the way because she was hysterical.

However, she was only hysterical because her boyfriend was dying and being kept from life saving treatment that could have saved his life.

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TOPICS: Government; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: agitprop; choomgang; donutwatch; icantbreathe; leo; wisconsin
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To: flamberge

Once the patient crashes, the window of opportunity closes quite a bit faster than other types of calls.

What is also not known is what information they got on dispatch and on arrival.

They should have put it in high gear when they heard “asthma” and done what they could.


181 posted on 12/14/2014 8:14:45 PM PST by Clay Moore ("911 is for when the backhoe won't start." JRandomFreeper)
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To: Moonman62
..in answer to your question

It is policy in almost every police department to call for ambulance and paramedics on encounters with injured or critically ill people.

Police are not generally supposed to transport or escort people with life-threatening medical conditions.

Sometimes this policy does not work out very well.

182 posted on 12/14/2014 8:15:36 PM PST by flamberge
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To: Slings and Arrows

If I was speeding to the hospital, I wouldn’t have stopped for a police officer, I would have used him as my trailing escort. It’s not like the officer is going to drive them off the road.


183 posted on 12/14/2014 8:17:51 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Moonman62

Have you reviewed the video?


184 posted on 12/14/2014 8:18:03 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Slings and Arrows
This is what happens when cops are so risk averse. Back in the day the officer would have led a police escort to make sure they got to the hospital as quickly as possible.

Now with the risk of the girl friend getting into an accident or the cop getting in an accident it was just safer to call the ambulance.

The city will be sued and settle out of court. That's the recommended procedure.

185 posted on 12/14/2014 8:18:52 PM PST by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: tflabo

If he wanted to breathe he should have asked the cop for permission. /sarc


186 posted on 12/14/2014 8:18:56 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: Moonman62

Well, you have obviously not reviewed the data. Or you are unreasonable and unencumbered by the thought process..


187 posted on 12/14/2014 8:20:06 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Leaning Right
The ambulance leaving the hospital and the supposedly hysterical driver have the same distance to cover.

I don't follow. If the ambulance was being dispatched from the hospital, it would have to cover twice the distance to get the patient to the hospital as would the car.

The person would get treated in the ambulance.

The driver then made her decision and stayed.

Once the cop was on-scene, the driver really could make no decision. If the driver decided to continue, the cop most probably would have forcefully prevented it.

If I was the driver and if I thought it was better for me to continue on, I would tell the policeman that I'm not waiting and that I'm driving to the hospital.

188 posted on 12/14/2014 8:21:18 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: CharlesWayneCT

> It’s not like the officer is going to drive them off the road.

Bets?

[I agree with your approach, but, IMO, that is not a safe assumption.]


189 posted on 12/14/2014 8:21:38 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: Moonman62

An accident involves INJURY, not illness. Everyone knows it is unwise to move injured people without proper triage and prep.

This guy was ill,not injured. Clearly he moved himself and could have been moved by anyone else.

Next analogy, please.


190 posted on 12/14/2014 8:22:44 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
If I was speeding to the hospital, I wouldn’t have stopped for a police officer, I would have used him as my trailing escort. It’s not like the officer is going to drive them off the road.

That's certainly a course of action I would have considered.

191 posted on 12/14/2014 8:23:01 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: LevinFan

When you say “they” you paint with a mighty broad brush.

Get a clue.


192 posted on 12/14/2014 8:23:39 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin)
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To: FreeReign
The person would get treated in the ambulance.

Good point.

I would tell the policeman that I'm not waiting and that I'm driving to the hospital.

That would be a reasonable thing to do. Unfortunately, you'd probably instead end up cuffed in the back seat of a police cruiser.

193 posted on 12/14/2014 8:26:54 PM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: FreeReign

But if we are assuming it takes the same time for each vehicle to get to the hospital, then the time the GF would get to the hospital and be treated would be THE SAME as the ambulance making it to her and starting treatment.

Of course, that is assuming the hospital had the ambulance. It could be a closer fire or ambulance company.


194 posted on 12/14/2014 8:27:15 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: gaijin

“We have procedures that have been set in place to maintain order; we cannot allow every nonconformist to dictate to society.”

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195 posted on 12/14/2014 8:28:44 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: flamberge

Once he collapsed to a prone position he had about 30 seconds left to live.

...

Does that mean that if he had laid him down in the police car and driven him to the hospital, he still would have died?


196 posted on 12/14/2014 8:30:59 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

They’re getting sued, and rightly so.

So much for false dilemmas.
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197 posted on 12/14/2014 8:31:13 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: tflabo
WTH is it with police and people with breathing issues?

Police are poorly trained to deal with people who have breathing problems. Worse yet, much of what police are trained to do will aggravate breathing problems in susceptible individuals.

Police are not paramedics. However, they do need to be able to recognize critical medical conditions and use appropriate procedures for them, other than the standard demands for compliance.

198 posted on 12/14/2014 8:33:43 PM PST by flamberge
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To: antidisestablishment

Global cooling can cause nasty weather all across Dixie....


199 posted on 12/14/2014 8:34:07 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: flamberge

I saw an episode of Adam 12 recently where a cop was shot. They got the car close enough to get him in the back seat although there was gunfire still going on.

They began transporting him to the hospital but met an ambulance on the was an exchanged him since the Los Angeles ambulances have trained paramedics on them.

If they would not do the same for an injured civilian they came upon, it only means they think more of the cops life.

Those shows btw are screened by LAPD for accuracy and conformity to their rules.


200 posted on 12/14/2014 8:34:13 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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