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Highway Patrol Chokes Ambulance Driver On Tape
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Capt Caveman
Lifer
No choking occurred. Fix your title.
Thigh holster, tons of space near the non-existant wang he's compensating for by carrying a DE.
Sorry, don't really mean to insult the poster, just the theory of carrying a DE .. why.. just why would you carry that concealed? There are so many firearms with similar stopping power that are infinitely easier to conceal/carry.
As for the OP, absurd situation.
Arkaign
Lifer
Agreed. The DE is pretty much just for show, I have a lot of military buddies that collect guns and we go to the ranges. I do CC it once in a while, mostly in winter, but I really prefer carrying the Sigma. And no thigh holster, I very much prefer shoulder holsters. If I'm standing with my arms at a relaxed angle while wearing a decent jacket or coat, the .50 is not readily seen. The Sigma OTOH, is a whole lot more manageable in every way.
alphatarget1
Diamond Member
I'm not sure if any sane jury would convict a guy for murder and sentence him/her to death if this situation were to occur.
Cdubneeddeal
Diamond Member
Oh god..here we go again. The flurry of "Cops are dicks" threads. Though..I don't agree with the cops but news and threads about this subject seem to pop up like the plague then are gone..then pop again, then are..
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
I wonder what would of happened if the ambulance driver was white. Bet he would of never been stopped. Stupid racist pricks.
Hayabusa Rider
Admin Emeritus & Elite Member
Link to black cop?
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
My bad, I meant the ambulance driver, fixed post.
Capt Caveman
Lifer
You're kidding right? Look at the guys hands, they're loose around the guys neck. The paramedics expression is the same before, during and after. Wow, you can't tell the difference between restraining and choking.
reallyfull
Member
Capt Caveman
Lifer
And look at his hand and fingers, they're completely relaxed and straight. Unless, the cop is gouging his neck with his thumb(which no one can tell), the guy is holding the guy back by controlling his head by holding his hand against his neck, restraining him and not choking him. Heck, the paramedic is even speaking with the cops hands against his neck.
Kaervak
Diamond Member
I don't know how it is in OK, but here in Ohio all municipal EMS is required by law to run hot from base to the scene and from scene to the hospital when responding to a 911 call. I can't tell if they're municipal or private. I work for a private ambulance service, even running hot we have to yield at all intersections and proceed when clear. The only exception is Rural Metro Ambulance since they do 911 nursing home calls and have the proper gear to change signal lights. If we're not running hot, we do not run intersections and we yield to anything else running hot.
As far as the medic that got a hand around his throat, he's in some serious shit. He abandoned his patient. You never, NEVER leave your patient like that. That was one of the first things they taught us in basic, never leave your patient unattended. Anyway, the cops overreacted and the medic driving screwed up, but not as much as the other medic tending to the patient. Everyone is pretty much at fault for something from that video.
As far as the medic that got a hand around his throat, he's in some serious shit. He abandoned his patient. You never, NEVER leave your patient like that. That was one of the first things they taught us in basic, never leave your patient unattended. Anyway, the cops overreacted and the medic driving screwed up, but not as much as the other medic tending to the patient. Everyone is pretty much at fault for something from that video.
Capt Caveman
Lifer
Ambulance driver was white. The black paramedic was in the back of the ambulance with the patient.
waggy
No Lifer
yeah thats why got attacked. the cop seen into teh ambulance adn seen the paramedic was black. then decided to pull him over and beat him up.
its not the fact the driver of the ambulance cut him off then when the officer went to grab him he yanked his arm away and turned. nope not that.
MedicBob
Diamond Member
1> There were no "Ambulance Drivers" there. There were 2 Paramedics and one was driving.
2> No one abandoned a patient. He stepped out of the side door. Abandonment would entail leaving the patient. Agreed, he should have stayed in the back.
3> Is the ambulance is transporting non-emergent, they yield right of way to those driving emergent.
4> The back up call might have been resolved and the officers might have returned. Then again, maybe they couldn't get around the ambulance due to on comming traffic, etc.
5> No one here has the entire story.
2> No one abandoned a patient. He stepped out of the side door. Abandonment would entail leaving the patient. Agreed, he should have stayed in the back.
3> Is the ambulance is transporting non-emergent, they yield right of way to those driving emergent.
4> The back up call might have been resolved and the officers might have returned. Then again, maybe they couldn't get around the ambulance due to on comming traffic, etc.
5> No one here has the entire story.
I have yet to meet a cop that wasn't a complete douchebag with short man syndrome. When I was 15 I was practicing my motorcycle skills out in the middle of nowhere on some non paved country roads 5 miles away from any kind of civilization. A cop happened to cross my path and pulled me over for not having a license plate (it's a dirtbike, duh). He called backup, two motorcycle cops and one additional regular trooper. After 2 hours of these guys BS-ing and running my info through their computers and me sitting patiently on the dirt they came to the conclusion that the best course of action was to impounded my bike and leave me out there in the middle of nowhere without a phone call or ride to the city as the sun began to set. My parents were thrilled about that one.
At around the same time my two brothers who were 12 and 14 at the time were shooting tin cans with BB guns and air soft guns in the middle of a field that was at least 500 acres. Out of nowhere dozens of cops swooped in, slammed them to the ground and held combat shotguns to their heads at point blank range, followed by hours of interrogation. Both these incidents were over 10 years ago and this one traumatized my brothers for years.
You can't make this stuff up, folks. /me waits for the "you deserved it" crowd.
I love how the increase of technology and ease to film these incidents with cell phones really helps bring this kind of BS to light.
At around the same time my two brothers who were 12 and 14 at the time were shooting tin cans with BB guns and air soft guns in the middle of a field that was at least 500 acres. Out of nowhere dozens of cops swooped in, slammed them to the ground and held combat shotguns to their heads at point blank range, followed by hours of interrogation. Both these incidents were over 10 years ago and this one traumatized my brothers for years.
You can't make this stuff up, folks. /me waits for the "you deserved it" crowd.
I love how the increase of technology and ease to film these incidents with cell phones really helps bring this kind of BS to light.
On the flip side Alienwho, a cop caught us out at an abandoned construction site because of reports of gunshots. He had us empty our pockets. We had thundersticks (illegal version of roman candles), bottle rockets and a bunch of other stuff. Basically fireworks we shouldn't legally be able to acquire. Once he realized what the source of the problem is, he let us keep all our shit, just took our lighters and told us to keep it down for awhile then left. He could have done a lot worse.
We also were woken up by firemen once because a fire was reported. It was our campfire. They woke us up because they wanted to know what the hell we had put in the fire because they couldn't extinguish it. I don't recall everything we threw into that fire, it had like every flammable substance we could put in it. After they finally managed to extinguish it they took down our names and let us go.
We always had bb guns, paintball guns, gun powder, fireworks and other stuff on us in every encounter. I guess we lucked out.
We also were woken up by firemen once because a fire was reported. It was our campfire. They woke us up because they wanted to know what the hell we had put in the fire because they couldn't extinguish it. I don't recall everything we threw into that fire, it had like every flammable substance we could put in it. After they finally managed to extinguish it they took down our names and let us go.
We always had bb guns, paintball guns, gun powder, fireworks and other stuff on us in every encounter. I guess we lucked out.
Chiropteran
Diamond Member
Are you kidding? It's far more important for a cop to nail someone going 11 miles over the speed limit than it is to get someone with life-endangering injuries to the hospital.
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