• classic
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    At one point the officer jokes: “I’ve always wanted to be in a bar fight. I don’t know if this counts.”

    A few things to unpack, right there

  • roguetrick
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    3723 days ago

    Gave him several doses of Narcan when he obviously had a heart attack, what idiots.

  • Tarquinn2049
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    23 days ago

    But what if one time they are lying about not being able to breathe and we let them up for a second and then it turns out they really could breathe but just lied… what about the horrible ramifications of that… we wouldn’t want them to have had a single moment of slight relief if it turns out they were just lying right?

    Probably better to just find out when they either die or not… who would be able to forgive us if we gave them a slight break and took their word for it that they were about to die.

  • Melkath
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    1923 days ago

    I know exactly what the response was.

    “If YoU cAn SaY tHaT tHeN yOu CaN bReAtHe”

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      23 days ago

      The video is in the article. The response was “you’re fine” and a pat on the back. Can’t make that shit up.

    • @meco03211@lemmy.world
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      223 days ago

      Good advice for a choking person. Performing the abdominal thrust on someone who could talk has the potential to get the obstruction stuck further and completely blocking their airway.

      Not good advice for someone possibly panicking that you are actively smothering.

      • Melkath
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        323 days ago

        It’s almost like the militarized police force is tortured in a controlled setting as part of their training, so they torture citizens… who aren’t trained for torture and are not in a controlled setting.

    • @ccunning@lemmy.world
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      3423 days ago

      he suffocated under his own body weight because he wasn’t fit enough to be laid on his stomach

    • @arvere@lemmy.world
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      423 days ago

      the whole ethical discussion aside, is it even possible for someone to choke under their own body weight, or die if they lay on their stomach, if they aren’t terminally obese or something like that?

      legitimately curious, as people are throwing this around like it was normal… is this an American thing?

      • @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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        121 days ago

        Yes. Fortunately, the human body has a lot of reflexive defenses against it, so the only way it could happen is if you were forced into the situation against all struggles.