Posted on 06/16/2018 12:15:49 PM PDT by DFG
Minneapolis police officers have repeatedly requested over the past three years that Hennepin County medical responders sedate people using the powerful tranquilizer ketamine, at times over the protests of those being drugged, and in some cases when no apparent crime was committed, a city report shows.
On multiple occasions, in the presence of police, Hennepin Healthcare EMS workers injected suspects of crimes and others who already appeared to be restrained, according to the report, and the ketamine caused heart or breathing failure, requiring them to be medically revived. Several people given ketamine had to be intubated.
These are among the findings of an investigation conducted by the Office of Police Conduct Review, a division of the city’s Department of Civil Rights. The draft report has been circulated narrowly within City Hall but not disseminated to the public. The Star Tribune has obtained a copy.
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How is this different from government school teachers insisting that boys be doped with ritalin?
Sounds perfectly reasonable.....
Well.......
Wonder if there have been lawsuits too.
God help us. When hammers are passed out everything starts looking like a nail.
It’s the same overweening mind.
“”””On multiple occasions, in the presence of police, Hennepin Healthcare EMS workers injected suspects of crimes and others who already appeared to be restrained, according to the report, and the ketamine caused heart or breathing failure, requiring them to be medically revived. Several people given ketamine had to be intubated. “”””””””””””
No EMS will inject ANYTHING into a patient without approval from above. Haven’t these guys ever watched Emergency?
Station 51 calling Rampart... Come in Rampart!!!!!!!!!!
He waved his arms; and it was action, he was doing something. He shouted “Help!” several times, more and more loudly so as to give himself the illusion of helping. “Help! Help! HELP!”
The policemen pushed him out of the way and got on with their work. Three men with spraying machines buckled to their shoulders pumped thick clouds of SOMA vapour into the air. Two more were busy round the portable Synthetic Music Box. Carrying water pistols charged with a powerful anaesthetic, four others had pushed their way into the crowd and were methodically laying out, squirt by squirt, the more ferocious of the fighters.
— Brave New World
Some things have ways of collapsing into rubber stamps.
Snark if you will, but my son is an EMS and I’d hate for him to have his face ripped off by some meth addict.
In Wild, Wild Country, about the Baghwan Shree Rajneesh and his trusty sidekick Ma Anand Sheela, after they bussed in the homeless from around the country and they started acting up, they were giving them two beers per day, and they just started putting haldol in the beers of the ones they wanted to subdue. Creative!
“””Snark if you will, but my son is an EMS and I’d hate for him to have his face ripped off by some meth addict.”””
10-4 on that. I live here in Minneapolis so I’m pretty sure this will turn into a cops suck/racist thing.
Let some of these do gooders go out and deal with the crackhead to give them some good first hand experience.
Ketamine is not much of a sedative. Trust me. I know what works.
Now thorazine or Demoral will make you sit down, shut up, and ignore what’s got you so fussed up!
Outrageous. Why any EMS would take medical direction from a police man is beyond understanding
That the city had to write a policy to tell these turds to stop is astonishing
Hennepin hospital may be using ketamine as a sedative but they are the only ones doing so. The police had overdoses happen because they ain’t medical personnel and are lazy sobs
Teachers cannot make such a demand.
They are not trained to make such a demand
These were people who were completely restrained, already.
How about I administer something that makes your breathing stop and heart race, as it did for these persons? You’re fine with that, right?
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