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Originally Posted by Bagor
There's also the matter of incompetence/negligence when it comes to monitoring his health and well-being post-taser that should be considered. It now appears obvious that no monitoring of the individual was conducted for any detrimental harm. An ambulance attendant at the inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski testified Thursday that the man was dead before medical help reached him at Vancouver International Airport.
Allan Maciak told the Braidwood inquiry that it was apparent Dziekanski’s condition was critical the moment he and his partner entered the airport.
“It was obvious his facial features — what you could see of his face — was blue and cyanotic,” he said.
Maciak recalled that as he approached Dziekanski, he saw his body — lying chest down — on the floor with his hands cuffed behind him.
Both Dziekanski’s hands and face were blue.
Dziekanski’s appearance, according to Maciak, indicated he had not been getting oxygen for a period of time. The ambulance attendant testified he knelt down and rolled Dziekanski over and realized he had lost control of his bladder.
“What was your impression about his state of being?” asked Art Vertlieb, the inquiry lawyer.
“Mr. Dziekanski was dead,” responded Maciak.
All this despite the cop's claim: Thursday’s testimony raises questions about what RCMP supervising officer Cpl. Benjamin Monty Robinson told the inquiry earlier. Robinson insisted he put Dziekanski on his side and continually monitored his pulse and breathing.
The officer’s first aid certification expired five years earlier.
So the man was either lying on his side in the recovery position alive being monitored by the cop or face down dead with his hands cuffed behind his back?
How the hell can you be mistaken about something like that?
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-col...ambulance.html |
Certainly the officers' testimony post-Taser are, um, shaky at best. My comments were in the context of the chain of events pre-Taser though, and not meant to apply to anything beyond the Taser/excited delirium issue.
Off topic, the reporter who wrote that article and referred to the paramedic as an "ambulance attendant" is ignorant and unprofessional. Calling a paramedic an ambulance attendant is pejorative, and akin to calling a police officer a pig, or a firefighter a mattress back.
/end rant