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Belgium · Jun 16, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/...-police.html&eventName=Watching-article-click
Ketamine Used to Subdue Dozens at Request of Minneapolis Police, Report Says
Minneapolis police officers asked emergency medical workers dozens of times over three years to inject suspects and others with the powerful anesthetic ketamine, including some who were already restrained, The Star Tribune reported on Friday.
In some cases, the drug caused heart or breathing failure and required those injected to be revived or intubated, according to the newspaper.

The Star Tribune said it had obtained a draft report of an investigation by the Office of Police Conduct Review, a division of the city’s Department of Civil Rights.

Ketamine has for decades been used as an anesthetic for humans and animals as well as abused as a recreational hallucinogenic drug known as Special K. Researchers have also explored its therapeutic uses in treating depression.

The Star Tribune, citing the draft report, said the number of documented injections of ketamine during police calls increased to 62 last year from three in 2012, including four times on the same person.

In one case, officers and emergency medical workers responded to a call about a man who appeared to be in a mental health crisis.

Four officers and two medical responders arrived and decided to sedate the man, according to the report authors, who reviewed body camera footage, The Star Tribune reported.

Upon seeing the needle, the man said he did not want the shot. “Whoa, whoa, that’s not cool!” he pleaded, according to the newspaper. “I don’t need that!”

He was injected with the drug twice and secured to a chair. “Shortly after, he became nonverbal and unintelligible, prompting one officer to remark, ‘He just hit the K-hole,’ a slang term for the intense delirium brought on by ketamine,” the newspaper reported.

Until last month, the police had no policy for using the drug, which the department manual classified as a “date rape drug” because it is a powerful sedative that can erase or alter memory.

Side effects of the drug can include changes in blood pressure and heart rate, delirium, agitation, confusion and hallucinations, said Dr. Scott Krakower, assistant unit chief of psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. If it is not administered properly, it could lead to cardiac and respiratory problems and potentially worsen agitation, he added.

John B. Gordon, the executive director of the A.C.L.U. of Minnesota, said on Friday he first learned of the injections from The Star Tribune report.

If officers directed medical responders to administer the drug, it amounted to a “horrible abuse of power,” he said.

Members of Hennepin Healthcare, the main emergency medical service provider in Minneapolis, are authorized to use ketamine when a patient is “profoundly agitated,” unable to be restrained and a danger to themselves or others, according to its policy, The Star Tribune said, adding that the draft report found cases in which emergency medical workers used it on people who did not appear to fit those criteria.

Around the time the draft report was completed last month, Police Cmdr. Todd Sauvageau issued an order that officers “shall never suggest or demand” that emergency medical personnel sedate a person. “This is a decision that needs to be clearly made by EMS personnel, not MPD officers,” the order said.

In a statement on Friday, Police Chief Medaria Arradondo emphasized that the draft report was incomplete “and devoid of any input from medical personnel,” and that releasing its contents “before its completion was irresponsible.”

The report has not been made public and remained a “work in progress,” a spokesman for the Police Department, John Elder, said on Friday.

Hennepin Healthcare said in a statement on Friday that it heard in early April that officers were asking that ketamine be used and relayed its concerns to the police on May 3.

“While a police request for ketamine may occur, the final decision is always made by professional medical personnel,” the agency said. “Last year, ketamine sedations were used on 0.095 percent of our 81,500 EMS calls for service.”

Hennepin Healthcare said that the drug had been used by its emergency medical services since 2008, and that it had asked an independent agency to review eight specific cases cited in the report.

DCAllAfrican · Jun 17, 2018

Cops probably are puzzled as to how to handle this

hand2handking · Jun 17, 2018

MalcolmNewton · Jun 17, 2018

hand2handking said:

Lol, Philly police with those two whales as cops. They couldn't run down a turtle. Looking like Reno 911

MalcolmNewton · Jun 18, 2018

Texas deputy accused of sexually assaulting 4-year-old threatened her mother with deportation, sheriff says

A Texas sheriff's deputy accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl threatened the victim's mother into staying quiet about the assaults, authorities said Sunday.

Jose Nunez, a 10-year veteran of the Bexar County Sheriff's Department, was off-duty when he was arrested early Sunday. The 47-year-old faces a felony charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child, Sheriff Javier Salazar said at a news conference.

pirateslaw · Jun 18, 2018

Humans, man. :smh:

Can't wait til he hits the pen with his crime and that goofy face of his.

hand2handking · Jun 18, 2018

AEA18 · Jun 19, 2018

Mark Antony · Jun 19, 2018

Sheesh.

blastercombo · Jun 19, 2018

hand2handking said:

“Cops get rigorous training”

Where’s the idiot that said this?

Mark Antony · Jun 19, 2018

6 months wouldn't be considered rigorous training in any other field.

hand2handking · Jun 20, 2018

hand2handking · Jun 20, 2018

hand2handking said:

Chicago Teen Dies After Paramedics Mistake Him For Being Dead, Cover Him With Sheet

http://abc11.com/teen-dies-after-paramedics-mistake-him-for-being-dead-cover-him-with-sheet/3623130/

CHICAGO -- A 17-year-old boy, who was presumed dead and covered with a sheet after a shooting on Chicago's west side Monday, has died from his injuries.

The victim was identified as Erin Carey, of the 200-block of South Lockwood Avenue in Chicago.

He was shot several times in the head around 4:50 a.m. Monday after a party.

There are questions over how the 17-year-old victim was treated by first responders. Chicago Fire Department paramedics, who initially thought Carey died at the scene, put a white sheet over Carey and moved on to help other victims.

But then, bystanders saw him breathing under the sheet.

News cameras were on scene for at least 15 minutes before paramedics removed the sheet and began administering CPR. How long the teen actually lay there, still breathing is unknown.

He was transported to a local hospital in very critical condition. He died at 1:19 a.m. Tuesday.
Witnesses at the scene told officers that the man was still alive.

"That individual has a catastrophic injury," said Chicago Police First Deputy Superintendent Anthony Riccio. "He was shot in the head and the prognosis is not good. I do understand that paramedics looked at him, believed him to be deceased, covered him with that sheet and moved on to another individual who was nearby who was also shot. They saw motion, movement underneath the sheet. Officers who were present notified paramedics, this man is still alive."

According to Chicago EMS protocols, it is paramedics who triage patients when responding to a 911 call. Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago said they still don't know how the teenager was mistaken for dead.
"We're looking into it right now. We're trying to piece everything together. We're looking at the computers where they put down all that information. Paramedics put down that information," Santiago said.

A woman between 20-25 years old was pronounced dead at the scene with multiple gunshot wounds. Police said she was found in the 1400-block of West Washburne Avenue. The Cook County Medical Examiner identified her as 22-year-old Shalonza E. McToy.
A 25-year-old man shot multiple times in the abdomen. A sixth victim, a 21-year-old man, was discovered at a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg. He was treated and released.

Area Central detectives are investigating and a weapon, possibly a Mac-10, was recovered from the scene. Police said there are several surveillance cameras in the area.

Police said none of the surviving shooting victims are cooperating with investigators and the shooting is believed to be related to an ongoing gang dispute in the area.

DCAllAfrican · Jun 20, 2018

Sterling Brown Sues Milwaukee Police, Cites Cop’s Racist Facebook Posts After Arrest : https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sterling-brown-suing-milwaukee_us_5b291eeae4b05d6c16c7c0df

Wild man

dathbgboy · Jun 20, 2018

dcallamerican said:
Sterling Brown Sues Milwaukee Police, Cites Cop’s Racist Facebook Posts After Arrest : https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sterling-brown-suing-milwaukee_us_5b291eeae4b05d6c16c7c0df

Wild man

Inferiority complex at its finest.

nawghtyhare · Jun 20, 2018

hand2handking said:

What’s the full story on this

hand2handking · Jun 20, 2018

nawghtyhare said:
What’s the full story on this

itsaboutthattime said:

hand2handking · Jun 20, 2018

MalcolmNewton · Jun 21, 2018

I don't know if anyone listens to Neely Fuller, Jr. He usually has a weekly show you can catch on YouTube. He had one show where he stated that black people have a higher change of surviving a police encounter by following the 3 F's:

Don't Fuss - basically keep your mouth shut and don't argue
Don't Fight - Don't make any offensive moves, matter of fact don't even move at all. Stand at attention if you have too.
Don't Flee - self-explanatory. Don't run, don't walk, don't even crawl

This only applies to NORMAL cops. If you encounter one that is hellbent on killing a black person that day, well you may die anyway, but at least you followed the 3 F's.

Unarmed Teenager Antwon Rose Shot 3 Times In Back While Fleeing Police

A 17-year-old boy in East Pittsburgh is dead after being shot three times in the back by an officer who had been sworn into the police department just hours earlier.

Antwon Rose was killed Tuesday night while fleeing from a car that had been pulled over in connection with an earlier shooting in North Braddock, Pennsylvania, according to WTAE TV.

Rose was not armed, Allegheny County police Superintendent Coleman McDonough said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

nawghtyhare · Jun 21, 2018

why so little info on this

jb20 · Jun 21, 2018

Things slowly coming out with that story. Now it’s being reported the driver was a jitney that’s why he was let go with no charges. The cop will probably get off with nothing due to the laws here in PA.

nawghtyhare · Jun 21, 2018

jb20 said:
Things slowly coming out with that story. Now it’s being reported the driver was a jitney that’s why he was let go with no charges. The cop will probably get off with nothing due to the laws here in PA.

They already got the defense ready for dude to get off

jb20 · Jun 21, 2018

nawghtyhare said:
They already got the defense ready for dude to get off

Main defense is law says deadly force can be used when necessary to prevent escape when person has committed felony or has a deadly weapon or is a danger to others. They say the car matches the description of a shooting that happened right before and had bullet holes in the windshield so they will say it gave them cause to believe there was weapons on people or in the car.