Posted on 06/16/2018 12:15:49 PM PDT by DFG
Minneapolis police officers have repeatedly requested over the past three years that Hennepin County medical responders sedate people using the powerful tranquilizer ketamine, at times over the protests of those being drugged, and in some cases when no apparent crime was committed, a city report shows.
On multiple occasions, in the presence of police, Hennepin Healthcare EMS workers injected suspects of crimes and others who already appeared to be restrained, according to the report, and the ketamine caused heart or breathing failure, requiring them to be medically revived. Several people given ketamine had to be intubated.
These are among the findings of an investigation conducted by the Office of Police Conduct Review, a division of the city’s Department of Civil Rights. The draft report has been circulated narrowly within City Hall but not disseminated to the public. The Star Tribune has obtained a copy.
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Asking that a a child be examined us N
OT the same thing as having an unlicensed untrained know nothing telling someone to shoot up a handcuffed and restrained patient.
These are entirely different occurrences
You don’t want teachers telling you what to do you can home school
Nothing you can do when your handcuffed and someone has already stuck a needle in you
Thou must not resist
Thou must not flee
Thou has no such right
Sleep is preferable to death
What’s with all the hostilities, homeboy?
Are EMS people trained to take medical advice from cops?
I don’t think so.
I am on the way to see my son who has been in the hospital for months. I have talked to hundreds of nurses and such the last nine months. They don’t give someone a Tylenol without approval from a doctor.
Minneapolis...I am gonna go out on a limb here...
“””I’m afraid you’re mistaken. Teachers can and do make such demands. They demand that the child be examined by a doctor who rubber stamps whatever the school tells him to do. That means the kid gets Ritalin because the teacher demanded it. I’ve seen it happen.
When it reaches that point, the school tells the parents that if they resist they will have social services come in and evaluate their fitness as parents.”””””
I don’t think so. One of my kids had a first grade teacher, first year in the classroom, and she told us he needed Ritalin because he was active and didn’t sit still.
I told her not a chance...Do your job because I won’t turn him into a zombie for you. She didn’t like me much.
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You got lucky!
Don’t count on it in the very near future.
Oh wow.
TFTI
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EMS people trained to take all instruction from ‘cops.’
EMS blunders kill daily!
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The latest from the Barney Fife amateur Minnecraponus wannabe cops. And practicing medicine without a license as well, but this is entirely OK in Minnestoopid.
This is another example why I do not recognize ANY professional license issued by the state of Minnestoopid. I don’t care if it’s medicine, law, engineering, or cutting hair.
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Wise position for sure!
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Um, isn’t this the same PD Force that had the muzzieslime cop that killed an innocent Woman by shooting across his partners lap while sitting in the car ?
Why is EMS there carrying ketamine in the first place? It’s a kind of sedative that’s used for intubation.
Begging your pardon, however Ketamine is a general anesthetic agent capable of producing an anesthetized state when administered at 1 mg / kg. Trust me I know what works — I am and anesthesiologist and have used this drug many times to induce anesthesia
actually it is.
and we also use deep anesthesia with those whose drug cocktail makes them unmanageable.
I do not disagree with you — I have seen a lot of times EMS has gone off the deep end and tried to pretend to be doctors and screwed patients up beyond belief. Most are good but there is a subset of them who like to play doctor. Often wrong, never in doubt they are
heh heh heh heh... i remember that one, Jim lost.
My doctor prescribed a topical cream containing this drug and others (a “compound”) to rub into my back for arthritis pain. It worked very well. I filled it a couple of times, but because it was so expensive, my insurance company suggested I find something else. I would have paid for it out of pocket till I found out it was about $1200 a tube. ugh
If I remember correctly - this is the drug known on the street as “Special K”. (?)
In deep blue Minnesota?
Who’d have thunk!
Yes, there actually have been a lot of doctors getting into trouble not realizing they were prescribing a highly controlled substance — however, I am aware of topical compounds with ketamine in it and it does work. Without geeking out to much Ketamine is the only drug that puts you to sleep (induction agent) that has pain relief with it (analgesia). All the other drugs — propofol, etomidate, and back in the day Pentothal provide no analgesia. Ketamine is the drug indicated for sleeping someone in shock. Thats why there was some reference in the article to the heart racing, although it was probably more being partially anesthetized than the drug. And ye you are correct ketamine is special K in the clubs scene
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