Posted on 01/15/2014 1:40:49 PM PST by GeronL
Perfect.
Here is the story the UK DailyMail ran...
*snip*
Never-before-seen footage from the frantic aftermath of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 runway crash in July reveals that firefighters tragically did not realize that a 16-year-old victim was still alive - only to run her over twice 15 minutes later.
Video from a camera mounted on a San Francisco firetruck shows at least two emergency workers alerting vehicles to go around Chinese student Ye Meng Yuan as she lay on the ground by the stricken aircraft. The first responders believed she was dead and did not check her vital signs.
One lieutenant told crash investigators that she made ‘a three second’ visual assessment of Miss Yuan and automatically assumed ‘that’s our first casualty’ - without putting a finger to her pulse or checking if she was still breathing.
Less than 15 minutes after the first driver had seen Miss Yuan, they drove over the teen who was now covered in the foam being used to douse the burning plane. Moments later, a second fire truck rode over the student’s body.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2539644/Horrifying-new-footage-reveals-firefighters-ignored-16-year-old-Asiana-Flight-214-crash-survivor-lay-burning-plane-run-TWICE-15-minutes-later.html
Twenty-one posts til someone gets it.
bump
Nah, it stuck out to me first time I read it, just didn’t think it postworthy given that it’s from a purfeshunal urinalist.
Should people really have big hikes to their property taxes because a rescue worker makes an honest mistake?
Until.
; )
“Mistake” is such a harsh word. Can’t we just call it an “oopsy?” /s
I wasn’t talking about the rescue worker. City officials had this video and info immediately after the incidence and lied and lied and lied and lied for months.
Those officials are the ones who need to be in prison as far as I am concerned.
The question wasn’t in response to anything you said, was asking generally about the lawsuit of the family against the city.
You win.
I always say the money should come from those who decided to deny, lie and cover it up. Not from tax payers.
My thinking is basically..."fog of war".
I hope the driver's presumed prosecution and sentence aren't left up to public opinion based on videos..........
I hope its not based on the lies told by the authorities since it happened.
I doubt anyone gets prosecuted in a criminal court.
First responders are frequently adrenalin junkies with this “out of my way; I’m on a mission to save the world” attitude of entitlement. I was almost taken out by one (and had unpleasant encounters with multiple others) after Katrina.
A city or any other gubmit is as responsible as any company for actions by their authorized personnel while on the job.
The citizens, by electing the gubmit officials, gave tacit approval to their actions or failures in this case, same as any other employer. If they don’t think they can reasonably manage on the citizens behalf, the citizens should replace them.
“A city or any other gubmit is as responsible as any company for actions by their authorized personnel while on the job.”
Looks like it depends on which state:
The idea behind domestic sovereign immunityalso called governmental tort immunity is to prevent money judgments against the government, as such judgments would have to be paid with taxpayers’ dollars. As an example, a private citizen who is injured by another private citizen who runs a red light generally may sue the other driver for Negligence. But under a strict sovereign immunity doctrine, a private citizen who is injured by a city employee driving a city bus has no Cause of Action against the city unless the city, by ordinance, specifically allows such a suit.
Governmental tort immunity is codified at the federal level by the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U.S.C.A. § 1291 [1946]), and most states and local governments have similar statutes. Courts and legislatures in many states have greatly restricted, and in some cases have abolished, the doctrine of governmental tort immunity.
i found a complete chart showing government liability differences by state
http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/state-sovereign-immunity-and-tort-liability.aspx
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