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Originally Posted by bob-loblaw
On the New York Times website, they broke down the entire episode from all the different security and cell phone cameras.
I'm unclear about a few things after I saw it. This whole episode is so saddening, maddening and just doesn't make any sense.
1. It may be just the portions that I saw, but is anyone holding the EMTs accountable? Chauvin still had his knee on his neck for about a minute after the ambulance arrived. It looked like Chauvin took his knee off his neck, the EMTs put him on the stretcher and drove away. I didn't see any attempt at CPR as soon as they got there. No urgency at all to try and save him.
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Just my personal experience, and a rant I’ve been on before, but Calgary Police have only ever been nice to me.
EMTs on the other hand have been worse than scum each of the 3 or 4 times I’ve had to dial 911 due to a medical emergency. This is over the course of about 10 years in Calgary and most cases I was the innocent bystander who dialled 911, helped the victim and then watched as EMTs showed up and were straight up abusive to the victims. Who by the way included a man who had just had a seizure for the first time in his life (they told me I was an idiot for correctly diagnosing that he had a seizure. Then they interrogated him for 20 minutes accusing him of being drunk/high despite a rather serious head injury from his fall), were weirdly abusive towards an old man who had a serious fall and was bleeding profusely from his face (and was on blood thinners, again I was told to shut up for mentioning it to them) and finally when I was assaulted and bleeding in the streets (literally), I asked the EMT to treat my wounds, they refused, threatened me with violence for wasting their time, took me to the hospital where they continued to loudly berate me for getting my ass beat in the middle of the night when I was the victim of a random beating. Oh yeah and then I got like 15 stitches in two places on my face.
So yeah, #### EMTs.
/rant