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A Mess in Minneapolis, Again
Rioting in Minneapolis, again, after a police shooting. I have no idea of the details (other than it was during a traffic stop) but look at this statement from the governor:
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tweeted he was “closely monitoring the situation” and “praying for Daunte Wright’s family as our state mourns another life of a Black man taken by law enforcement.”
Holy moly. Let’s encourage a race war, governor. Are these people insane?
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I doubt we ever will.
They already have a side-step for that: when black people are killed by black cops who have a black chief in a city with a black mayor and a black city council and maybe a black governor… it’s because of “systemic racism.”
Make of this what you will: 1) male cop’s TASER is in a cross-draw holster; 2) female cop’s pistol is a Glock with aftermarket three-dot sights.
I once cleaned up the mess another Doc got into by bypassing the safety features on a device used to burn the inside of the uterus. He had unknowingly perforated into the abdomen and thus burned the cecum, this required emergency surgery, hysterectomy and bowel resection. I will never forget the mess we found.
I can’t imagine how big the malpractice payment was on that, I know it settled was out of court.
Safety Hint of the Day: if a surgical instrument has a safety feature, for God’s sake don’t bypass it.
I expect the settlement was well deserved, if not insufficient. Those kinds of injuries could have pretty sever life-long consequences.
You forgot the old dictum- the 1st casualty of a trial is the truth
A)Your friend is most likely mistaken – only 1 specialty of MD ever really touches monitors.
B) but otherwise his point is correct. A few years ago they came out with “needless” injection ports on intravenous tubing. The idea was to prevent need sticks among hospital staff- HIV you know. The problem was it was a “luer lock”mechanism- the same as used on automated blood pressure monitors. So, if you accidentally hooked the blood pressure monitor tubing to the IV you would likely kill the patient due to a lethal air embolism b/c the machine will pump air thru the tubing until the pressure in the tubing is 300mmHg (which it will never reach). After a number of deaths,they replaced EVERY automated blood pressure cuff in the country (there had to be a million+ of them) and replaced every such cuff and the tubing from the monitor with a non-lure lock mechanism.
The standard is for the TAZER to be on the nondominant side
A small bright spot in a crude slack Bond spoof. It had a Bad Lair. (Scroll down a bit.)
Oh there was plenty of other fun in those movies. Including one of the few screen appearances of Sharon Tate.
And there was the gun that fired like 3 seconds AFTER the trigger is pulled… The vest-button bombs…
Plus, they prioritize ‘diversity’ over competence. See Mohamed Noor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/minneapolis-police-sentencing-mohamed-noor.html?0p19G=6214
They are taught the zeroth amendment by BLM.
Say her name!
Brick and mortar takes a bit too long to construct.
Might as well. This isn’t going away.
And we never will.
Yeah. Thats an “open your wallet wide and shut the hell up ” moment.
Uh not really. ER docs touch them. Intensivists and Cardiologists touch them. Anesthesiologists touch them. Residents of lots of specialties touch them. Particularly when you are dealing with a crisis. Lots of different monitoring equipment out there.
Touch isn’t the same as actually work with— and 3 of the 4 specialties you mentioned typical just say “nurse check……”. Most have little understanding of how they actually work (with one exception) and rarely do anything but look at the screen.
Believe in 30 years in the ER I’ve handled a lot of the equipment. Particularly when the nurse is having a problem with it or, it’s a crisis and I need it done right now. The same in most specialties, especially when they are residents.
in over 30 years i’ve mostly seen ER docs mishandle monitors….
By and large most ER docs aren’t emergency docs-unfortunately in the american medical system ERs are mostly walk in clinics and are overwhelmed by the mundane. They have an important function in mundane care for the indigent but it actually hurts the “system” in terms of its preparedness to handle REAL emergencies for most ERs in the USA. It is a longstanding problem for emergency medicine. But without serious changes there is no way for the ERs to avoid the problem-unless you are Shock Trauma in Maryland.
Uggh. The training for MPD is for Taser to be holstered off-hand. They should go further and get rid of cross-draw and require off-hand use. Sufficient accuracy can be achieved for Taser use.
We really need an independent body certifying police departments for using best available training and equipment. Administratively, policing is in dark ages.
This is what I hate about this stuff. We are going to go into a whole thing on why the cops blew it. Maybe they did. But if this idiot just did what he was told and did not try to run away and fight the cops in the process this would not be an issue. Frankly this young man died because he was stupid and did not follow instructions.
While true, that’s a discussion that cannot be had in the current climate. You’ll be accused of blaming the victim.
Yes.
And they will give him the Trayvon Martin treatment, with the media only using pictures of the kid as a smiling 12 year old boy.
Other pictures may get left out…
He is not a victim. He is a criminal evading capture.
As painful as it might be not only the Brooklyn, Minn. PD will have to examine their training model, and other police departments around the country should also take a look at went wrong on this traffic stop that included the discovery of a warrant. Traffic stops lead to many warrant discoveries across the United States.
An investigation of an incident that goes wrong has two purposes. One is to evaluate an officer(s) actions to determine an officer’s fitness, and the second is to modify the training of officers if necessary.
Police officers understand, or should understand that until you have handcuffed, searched, and placed a subject in the backseat of a police car you do not have full control of a subject. Anything can happen until that process is completed.
A subject that resists arrest has no control over the situation either. Resisting arrest can lead to serious physical injury, or death to the subject, and to police officers as well.
That’s why I asked #59.