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After he collapses the cops/EMT's just shuffle around (Original Post) moniss Sep 17 OP
I was with a family member the day he died. Zackzzzz Sep 17 #1
Watching the video and seeing how long moniss Sep 17 #2
"Police have no duty to protect you." Incanus Sep 17 #3

Zackzzzz

(141 posts)
1. I was with a family member the day he died.
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 02:48 PM
Sep 17

It was afternoon and I was putting him to bed.
He put his hands on my shoulders
and shoved me to the ground, forcefully.
I think he thought he was drowning;
that he was coming up for air.
He never said a word the whole time I was with him.
He was a good man and he loved to fish in the ocean.
In the past, he had saved friends who had fallen off boats.

What happened to this family man is absolutely Horrid.
I am beyond upset by her behavior and everyone present.
The EMT said he put his hands on her.
This is not uncommon when a person is dying.
I don't think this EMT was properly trained for this work.

moniss

(8,124 posts)
2. Watching the video and seeing how long
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 03:02 PM
Sep 17

they all just nonchalantly stood around or went about their other activities after they all saw he had collapsed was horrifying. No sense or care about what is happening in the moment.

It is like the video where a grandmother is rushing a 3 year old to the emergency room because the child has begun to bleed from the nose, vomit blood and is very lethargic. A cop pulls her over for speeding and rather than realizing the moment of danger for the child and giving her an escort he grabs her out of the car, she ends up on the ground in cuffs and he puts her in the back of the squad and then berates her and belittles her over and over while the sick child is left in Grandma's vehicle.

Many years ago in a small town a relative of mine who was 6 months pregnant got stopped by a local cop in the dead of winter for an expired tag. Snow was blowing all around and it was brutally cold. He wrote her the ticket, towed the vehicle and then drove away and left her standing there all alone with no ride. Long before cell phones. Luckily the tow truck driver knew her husband and he immediately called his dispatch on the radio once he drove a block away and had them call the husband.

Incanus

(140 posts)
3. "Police have no duty to protect you."
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 03:19 PM
Sep 17

Exactly, anyone who still believes the protect and serve motto is ignorant. The police know this and that's why they refused to help this poor man. It's heartbreaking and infuriating to think of how vulnerable he must've felt as he begged them to help, and they treated him as if he was an annoyance at best.

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