Posted on 01/14/2015 11:43:53 AM PST by BenLurkin
According to the Sun-Sentinel, 17-year-old Jamal Rutledge was sitting handcuffed as Officer Franklin Foulks was doing paperwork when Officer Foulks suddenly collapsed.
Rutledge immediately began kicking the security fence in the booking area to alert other police officers of the trouble.
(Excerpt) Read more at policeone.com ...
They Will probably add a charge of damaging gov property now...
I just watched this, stories like this puzzle me, he alerted the cops that a man had just passed out, what was he supposed to do?
It’s a rare person that would be alone in a room with someone who keels over out of their chair unconscious and that just sit there silently looking at them, with people within shouting distance in an office building.
They should drop the charges on the young man.
Give the young man a chance to have the charges dismissed if he does X and/or Y, something relating to the nature of his crime; that would accomplish the same thing, with the addition of perhaps changing the perp's life around.
He is lucky they didn’t taze him before he could explain.
No, but you can bet he has a heckofa character witness now.
It almost happened once with a classroom of kids. True story, a teacher was getting upset at the kids in his classroom acting up, he soon had a heart attack at the desk and slipped to the ground. The kids didn’t know what To do and sat there in silence for awhile until one kid said that somebody needed to do something and then one kid got up and alerted the principle who call the ambulance. They later said that teacher was almost gone
Excuse me .. the boy was in a “holding cell” .. I don’t think you realize he had to kick at the fencing to alert them - because he could not get anywhere near the “cop”.
I am a retired correctional officer. If an inmate helps an officer who is in some sort of distress, he/she would get some time off their sentence.
I'm guessing this was the day he taught the difference between "principle" and "principal."
Sorry I’m on my smartphone and my fat thumb accepted the automatic wording before I could have notice it
I’ve met a lot of hard inner-city people in my life who wouldn’t lift a finger to help another person out, let alone someone who was doing him no favors. I suspect that’s always been the case, hence the story of the Good Samaritan still makes the same moral point even today.
I know that, he was alone with a man who passed out, and he alerted someone, that is totally normal, and hardly heroic.
It is one thing for the people there to thank him, or praise him, but this is a national story.
Anyone else notice the 17 year old slip his left wrist out of the handcuff behind his back and the put it back in?
We see these kind of stories about people who call 911, it is strange.
Only a rare weirdo would have just sat there incurious, or totally passive, it isn’t just an instinct to help, but to do something, especially when you and another person are together and the other person passes out.
You obviously didn’t watch the video. He was in the same room as the cop. They were both behind a locked gate.
Don't worry about spelling. It's the principal that counts.
Hmmmm ..?? I’ve never seen a holding cell where the cop is in it with the perp.
You’re right I didn’t watch the video .. I’m doing research for a book, and I was just checking the latest news.
But, even if they were in the same room - I believe the kid would have been in handcuffs .. and that certainly would have restrained him from being able to help the cop .. and besides, if you’re the perp, you don’t want to be anywhere near the guy .. just so you won’t be accused of doing something to him.
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