Memphis police beat man to death during traffic stop #riptyrenichols

[DonB90]

nearly 50m children in school
less than 800k police in the U.S.

maths

Merica rationalization on full display Lord help us....

Almost the same amount of children are gunned down in school as police are on the street but don't see the glaring point being made just maths.. y'all are right being police is so dangerous and WOAT y'all got it

 

[bnew]

Documents detail EMTs' failure to aid Tyre Nichols - New York Amsterdam News

Two Memphis Fire Department emergency medical technicians who were fired and had their licenses suspended for failing to give aid to Tyre Nichols for 19 minutes while he struggled with injuries from being brutally beaten by police.

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Documents detail EMTs’ failure to aid Tyre Nichols​

by ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press
March 2, 2023

Body camera video of confrontation between Tyre Nichols and Memphis police officers leading to Nichols' arrest (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two Memphis Fire Department emergency medical technicians who were fired and had their licenses suspended for failing to give aid to Tyre Nichols for 19 minutes while he struggled with injuries from being brutally beaten by police, did not check his vital signs or perform other basic medical examinations, documents released Thursday showed.

Advanced EMT JaMichael Sandridge and EMT Robert Long went to the location where five Memphis police officers had punched, kicked and hit Nichols with a baton during an arrest after Nichols fled a traffic stop on the night of Jan. 7.

Video footage released by the city of Memphis showed the beating and the aftermath, which included the officers and other first responders chatting and milling about as Nichols was unattended — handcuffed on the ground and slumped against a squad car.

Nichols, 29, died three days later at a hospital. His death led to the firings of the five officers, who have since been charged with second-degree murder. They have pleaded not guilty. The Nichols case has intensified calls for police reform in Memphis and around the country.

Documents provided to The Associated Press on Thursday were tied to the Tennessee Emergency Medical Services Division’s decision Feb. 3 to suspend the licenses of Sandridg e and Long. Officials said they violated state rules of emergency aid and treatment.

In the board’s records, officials said both technicians failed to provide any basic emergency care to Nichols for 19 minutes, even as he showed “clear signs of distress, such as the inability to remain in a seated posture and laying prone on the ground multiple times.”

Both Long and Sandridge failed to initiate a primary examination, which could help identify the presence of any life-threatening injuries, the documents showed. Nichols’ vital signs were not checked, he did not receive high-flow oxygen or an intravenous line, and he was not placed on a heart monitor, the documents showed.

They also did not perform a secondary examination, which is used to establish any non-life-threatening injuries, the documents showed.

“Respondent did not engage his partner at the event location for purposes of taking appropriate action in safeguarding patient T.N. from incompetent health care practices of other emergency medical services personnel,” officials said in the documents.

Sandridge did not immediately return a message that was left over the phone for him with a person who answered his listed number. There was no immediate response to a voicemail seeking comment left at a number listed for Long.

During the license suspension hearing last month, board member Sullivan Smith said it was “obvious to even a lay person” that Nichols “was in terrible distress and needed help.”

“And they failed to provide that help,” Smith said. “They were his best shot, and they failed to help.”

Sandridge and Long had both been fired Jan. 30. At the time, officials said a span of 27 minutes elapsed from the time the EMTs arrived on the scene to the moment when an ambulance left the location of the arrest to take Nichols to a hospital.

The two EMTs were joined at the arrest location by a third fire department employee, Lt. Michelle Whitaker, who officials said remained in the fire engine with the driver during the response to Nichols’ beating. She has been fired, but it was not immediately clear Thursday if the state board would take any action towards a suspension of her license.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

I thought they might have been told to stay back. But looks like they made that decision all on their own. He literally never stood a single chance that night.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

I thought they might have been told to stay back. But looks like they made that decision all on their own. He literally never stood a single chance that night.

Yeah I was initially willing to give them the benefit of a doubt as MFD aren’t typically involved in these type of major controversies, but they should be charged along with the officers as well. The MFD chief needs to get fired along with them for publicly defending their actions.

It’s not being talked about by the press, but the police here killed someone else in jail not too long ago and now video has leaked out about it.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

It’s not being talked about by the press, but the police here killed someone else in jail not too long ago and now video has leaked out about it.

Sadly, this isn't surprising.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

Yeah I was initially willing to give them the benefit of a doubt as MFD aren’t typically involved in these type of major controversies, but they should be charged along with the officers as well. The MFD chief needs to get fired along with them for publicly defending their actions.

It’s not being talked about by the press, but the police here killed someone else in jail not too long ago and now video has leaked out about it.

Yeah it's time to clean house....

 

[Ziggiy]

Yeah I was initially willing to give them the benefit of a doubt as MFD aren’t typically involved in these type of major controversies, but they should be charged along with the officers as well. The MFD chief needs to get fired along with them for publicly defending their actions.

It’s not being talked about by the press, but the police here killed someone else in jail not too long ago and now video has leaked out about it.

Damn all this controversy and scrutiny and they murdered SOMEONE ELSE!!?!!??’

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Damn all this controversy and scrutiny and they murdered SOMEONE ELSE!!?!!??’

https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/video-shows-moments-gershun-freeman-died-in-custody-at-201-poplar/article_5de5e84a-b94a-11ed-baa2-a735b79ab722.html

This one happened late last year, but the video just got released. A lot of inmates have been dying at that jail for years, yet no one wants to do a deep dive into what's going on there. In this particular one, the coroners ruled it as a homicide.

 

[Day_Walker]

If being a policeman was an easy job they wouldn't have trouble hiring people. And let's not act like there's some "moral standard" keeping people from applying. It's a shyt job with shytty people; your co-workers and the public at large. It's the same reason people don't join the military; shyt job with shyt pay. Coli militants will say, "I ain't joining da white man's army" then bragging about working for the Federal Government as civilian contractors.

Being a policeman is probably one of the WOAT jobs besides maybe a teacher.

You 1 of the biggest c00ns on this site, how about you just shut the fukk up.

 

[Day_Walker]

I didn't say dangerous you idiot, I said shytty. Not only are you stupid, you are loud about it.

Stfu you dumb fakkit

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

@Day_Walker I hope your mother finds you hanging from a tree disembowled with your genitals stuffed down your throat. I'd love to wear your face on a shirt for activist clout.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

@Day_Walker I hope your mother finds you hanging from a tree

 

[Sterling Archer]

So much bootlicking and slurping of cops in a thread about them hunting down and murdering an innocent black man for no reason. Y’all are the worst type of fakkits.

 

[Ziggiy]

Of the many things I hope comes from this tragedy I sincerely am rooting for the family to receive the single largest payout in the HISTORY of police brutality killings. I want it plastered on every news media headline in the country and I hope both the police department AND the EMS are held equally responsible. This is something that should haunt and shame both entities for decades to come

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

I sincerely am rooting for the family to receive the single largest payout in the HISTORY of police brutality killings.

It should come out of the police retirement fund instead of from tax dollars.