The cops aren’t EMS workers. I don’t think is was negligence as much as lack of awareness. They are used to drama. They probably thought that is all it was. So train them a little more about heart attacks and obesity issues and other medical issues and proper responses. Minus his medical condition the officers handled it very smoothly. They did not understand the medical issue until it was too late.
The minor nature of the icharge is irrelevant.
CPR is taught at the academy and there were a dozen cops standing around. They knew what needed to be done. Briana’s law is supposed to make it mandatory that they receive CPR retraining every two years. Briaana’s law is named after a girl who died of asthma exacerbation because a Brooklyn cop was more interested in writing Briana’s mother a traffic ticket than providing any kind of assistance to the unconscious, non-breathing, dying 11 year old girl. New York’s finest all right.
There is a word for it. Misfeasance — The wrongful exercise of authority.