Geez, Call the Paramedics
If the Desk Sergeant saw this in lockup, he/she would be a moron not to at least get a medical clearance:
A New Jersey driver was awarded nearly $13 million after she was arrested by a state trooper who mistakenly believed she was intoxicated when she was actually suffering from a stroke, which delayed the medical care she urgently needed by several hours.
Cheryl Lynn Rhines, now 57, was having a stroke on Oct. 17, 2017, when she pulled her vehicle over on Route 78 as she was traveling from her home in Jersey City to her job in Florham Park, according to her lawsuit against the New Jersey State Police obtained by NJ.com and the New Jersey Monitor.
[...]More than two hours passed before someone at the police station eventually realized she was having a medical emergency and called an ambulance, which transported her to a hospital.
At the very least, paramedics would make an actual medical determination and spare the New Jersey tax payers a $13 million payout.
Protect yourself.
Labels: out-of-state
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
8 Comments:
This would never happen in Chicago. Nobody does DUIs.
What would I have done?
Just keep driving by and don't stop.
Collect a check, don't do shit, retire and get out of blue states all together.
Fuck all these democrats.
I have a friend who walked around an entire day having suffered from a stroke. He drove around and met with several people, all the while people staring oddly at him and nobody saying a word. It was about his 3rd stop during the day that he realized he was talking and not making sense nor actually understanding what others were saying. Probably a dozen people had the opportunity to help him but had no idea. So it’s not necessarily gross negligence. We’re police, not doctors l. Don’t assume people know they are having a stroke or a medical episode. Depending where it’s happening in your brain, or even a tumor, can lead to all sorts of odd behavior. That said, training needs to be better for officers in this area.
Unreal.
After reading the article I just want to curse that officer out. The insensitivity of this officer to assert she was "playing games" what if she had died? Although the article never mentioned what type of training this dumbass had. If I was this women lawyer I would rip he a new one, and I do wonder how he would feel if it was his mom under the same circumstance.
Why stop anyone, check still arrives on same date.
This also happened in NW Indiana (Valparaiso?) just a few months ago. At least a portion of the bodycam footage is public.
There’s always those weird officers that insist everyone is high or drunk, can never be anything else.
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