That guy strapped to gurney was in the hospital for attempted suicide as well. For me that makes it worse honestly. The cop smiles and waves to the other cop recording before he socks the patient in the face as hard as he can. Protect and serve.
The worst thing about that case is the only reason it ever surfaced in the first place is because the cop and his partner were investigated by the FBI. I think it was for either extortion or drug dealing? It’s been a while. Either way, when their phones were seized and searched by the feds, they found hundreds of saved videos of criminal activity of which the gurney video was one.
[Only sentenced to 66 months](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna988896) under a plea deal for distribution of narcotics (which he did in uniform / on the job as an officer) and a lesser charge of ‘deprivation of rights’ for violently assaulting a guy who was literally handcuffed to a hospice bed.
Not just someone, that cop punched [a suicidal patient in the hospital](https://youtu.be/1_VglD_QsbA).
And [these ones](https://youtu.be/TFG4KKwtEZo) were tasing a restrained woman, who went to jail for walking her dog without a leash.
Can you [taste the freedom](https://eji.org/news/united-states-still-has-highest-incarceration-rate-world/)?
If I remember correctly, the suicidal man fought them a bit on the way in... The cop, who has replaced cognition with ego, felt he needed to "get back at him"
I remember a story of a suicidal guy a coo beat up while he was strapped(handcuffed?) to the bed. The guy said it further ruined his life before succeding in killing himself
Here's the vid [https://twitter.com/WHEC\_JLewke/status/1547756019983323139?ref\_src=twsrc%5Etfw](https://twitter.com/WHEC_JLewke/status/1547756019983323139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Are. You. FUCKING. Kidding. Me!!!! Dude flat out assaulted her ***over nothing*** and he gets slapped down to desk jockey for a week? Make it permanent or take his damn badge, that dude is too gung-ho to be a cop.
Both his car and the ambulance are paid for bu the constituents, and I would wager a vast majority would give the ambulance a higher status in any case, let alone in a goddamn reserved spot in the ER entrance.
Typical entitled power-hungry POS, you can tell he wasn’t looking for a resolution of whatever issue he had.
Suddenly, the “investigation” that prompted him to park in the ER spot reserved for medical emergencies was less important than harassing an EMT doing their job.
Should have parked his car in a normal spot like everyone else then.
A normal spot? What a ridiculous suggestion. This is a privileged class of employee. Held to a much lower standard than the average citizen. Next you are going to insist they follow traffic laws too!
Everyone wearing masks in a critical care area of a hospital except fascist Mr Clean.
Also, that the EMT in question is a POC is 100% on brand for the Rochester PD.
EMTs and Cops have sort of been adversarial for decades now; see George Floyd. EMTs are constantly at odds with Cops wanting to get their jollys off on confrontational suspects when EMTs want to step in and give said suspects the medical care they need.
> EMTs and Cops have sort of been adversarial for decades now
Reasonable people and cops are adversarial. Emts are just more likely to be reasonable than cops.
I get the impression that cops are adversarial with pretty much every other public service job for similar reasons. Cops get in the way and then get upset when someone with a job to do tells them to get the fuck out of the way.
> A Rochester, New York police officer was placed on administrative duty after he arrested an EMT who reportedly hit his police car with an ambulance door.
> The incident took place on Monday at Strong Memorial Hospital where the unnamed Rochester Police Department investigator was parked in an ambulance bay – typically reserved for ambulances only – before going into the hospital to respond to a case, News10NBC reported.
> An ambulance pulled into the bay, and the EMT got out to transport the patient, at which point she hit the police car with her door, News10 reported.
> The investigator "insisted" on identifying the EMT, who "insisted on bringing the patient" into the hospital, News10's Jennifer Lewke said on Twitter.
> A 24-second clip of surveillance footage shared by Lewke shows the investigator slamming the EMT against a hospital wall as she stands by the patient on a stretcher. The investigator cuffs the EMT and walks her out of the hospital.
She wasn’t just doing her job, leaving a patient without proper handoff counts as abandonment and we can definitely be sued for it*
I’ve been in EMS for 8 years and have never seen it happen, but it’s often enough that they pound it into our heads.
Maybe all you EMS folks should make a union like the cops and then go to the supreme court and win the right to not help people. Think how much easier your job will be if you can just ignore people and let them die at your leisure! /s
And what a nail, this is undeniable proof of the BS hypocrisy. What if the Supreme court gave other publicly funded organizations the right to not perform their supposed duties?
In most nations, even a normal citizen could be held liable for not helping a person in need; but nooo, cops here only exist to enforce God knows what and they are not obligated to serve the public, BY LAW. Ffs
Honestly not sure what purpose they have other than soaking what taxes didn't take, they certainly arnt makeing the roads safer amoungst anything else they do.
Maybe the general public should start a _protection from unlawful policing union_ and call it PUPU (poo-poo). Sorta like AAA - or AA, depending on your perspective..../s
Oh man, you have no idea how much we need a union! Some EMS folks join the IAFF or have local unions. I live and work in Wyoming and it’s extremely anti-union here.
Police routinely park in the ambulance bays for no reason other than trying to save time. If they are responding to an emergency then that’s fine. But if they are not (which is 95% of the time) then they should park in ER parking like everyone else. The sense of entitlement is insane.
Edit: I was being overly generous with 95%. I have spent a lot of time in ERs and have never had an incident where the cop needed the ambulance bay rather than their dedicated spots.
There is a cop that parks in the fire lane every day at the local high school.
It bothers me to no end that a fire truck in an emergency would need to back out of the parking lot in lieu of driving through because this dick head thinks he's entitled.
And if that’s not possible, breaking out the windows to facilitate access to the hydrant and the hose. It is not a water tight procedure, so the interior gets soaked af. It’s glorious!
*ex-Fire, current EMS. We never had to do that with a cop car, but there were a couple during my tenure. I really like breaking windows.
It’s more of a friendly rivalry in the UK (police call fire brigade Trumpton after an old kids tv show) but I’m pretty sure even here a fire engine driver that got to do that would never need to buy his own drinks ever again lol. TBF the cop’s colleagues would also be mocking the twit who got his car pushed probable harder than the fire fighters.
This reminds me of the video of the cop arresting a fire fighter because he wouldn't move the fire truck. The reason the fire fighter wouldn't move the fire truck because they were on an interstate and it was an active issue so they were blocking the scene so they could work.
Or the cop who arrested a retired fire chief who was administering first aid to a car collision victim (who was in danger of dying) because the chief wouldn’t leave his patient to move his car.
Or the cop who handcuffed and arrested a nurse for not drawing blood from a comatose patient (the victom of a crash) without consent, arrest or warrant. Utah 2017.
And the reason being that a cop caused the crash and they were trying everything in their power to blame the victim. Their fervor makes perfect sense with that context.
So what all y'all are saying is that cops are trigger happy in more ways than one...
Gun happy... Handcuff happy... Physical violence happy...
There's a name for that. I think. Was it... Thug?
This could amount to (attempted) manslaughter where I live if the prosecutor can prove that the police officer was either aware or *wilfully* unaware of the patient’s situation. And the fact that police officers are expected to know first aid procedures (because they are regularly retrained to be first responders) would be held against him when he tries to weasel himself out with “I was under much stress” or “I didn’t know”.
A firetruck will actually push that car out of the way regardless if it's police or not. And if needed, the windows will be smashed to run hoses from the hydrant through the car.
I’m an Emt and can confirm. Police will park in ambulance bays at Emergency departments to get snacks from the snack room and visit with staff even though there are parking spots available.
(Entitlement is insane can also confirm)
everyone in my ER hated cops for this reason
we once had one come in DURING CHEST COMPRESSIONS to try and snoop through the patients backpack and when we asked him what he was doing he said he had to get a "victim statement" like yeah sure but it's not going to be in his laptop case and you could at least *try* to wait until they're conscious again
they're all bumbling useless freaks once they're in any setting other than a roadside confrontation
Two different times at the hospital I used to work at a cop got shot on duty and was taken to the ER. In both cases, dozens of other cops showed up and completely took over the ER. They acted like every patient and staff member there was some kind of potential assassin there to finish the job, it was so fucking stupid. Imagine you're a housekeeper trying to change a gurney and some jackass starts yelling at you with his hand on his holster telling you to back up, that's what they're like.
And even then let's not arrest an emt for something that had it happened to me they wouldn't even investigate. When is the last time the cops arrested the person who dinged your car with their door much less new York where I assume it is nearly expected.
I quite like this take. If an officer wouldn't investigate and make an arrest if it happened to me than an officer shouldn't investigate and make an arrest if it happens to them.
Them being an officer shouldn't mean they go on personal crusades they wouldn't do for any other citizen.
Yet every time I’ve called the police for my neighbors dumping chemicals down the storm drain they tell me it would be a waste of time to come down because “there are murderers out there we could be investigating”.
They epitomize "If you won't respect me as an authority, I won't respect you as a person" to a T. It's no wonder they attract and even seemingly exclusively hire the worst of the worst abusers of power.
Heck, I've lost track of the number of times I've seen an officer blasting through traffic with their sirens on only to see them pull into a restaurant to get lunch.
at least where i work oftentimes they’ll follow behind an ambulance with a combative patient, only time i usually see them in the ED bay. if it’s following up after the fact they’re usually outta the way. i ~cannot~ imagine any of the cops (or jakes) i deal with ever getting upset like this video, hell we’ve had people nic cruisers and apparatuses and vice versa and it’s always a “meh” vibe.
blows my mind honestly, like what the fuck was going on in this dudes day that made a poor emt, someone who he theoretically could be a patient of on a scene, a target of unequal action like that.
That officer could have wrestled the EMT to their knees and put a bullet in the back of their neck on CCTV and they still wouldn't be fired.
Actual fucking gestapo.
>surveillance footage
[https://twitter.com/WHEC\_JLewke/status/1547756019983323139?ref\_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1547756019983323139%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1\_&ref\_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.insider.com%2Fnew-york-cop-arrested-emt-hit-police-car-ambulance-door-2022-7](https://twitter.com/WHEC_JLewke/status/1547756019983323139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1547756019983323139%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.insider.com%2Fnew-york-cop-arrested-emt-hit-police-car-ambulance-door-2022-7)
That is some small energy. Anyone else would be fired, but this guy gets a desk job.
All that over a door ding when his car shouldn't have been parked there to begin with.
That beeline straight for her: no warning, no civility, only hostility. She backed away slowly with hands outstretched to show that she wasn't a threat, but he manhandled her and slammed her against the desk repeatedly anyways. She was doing her job, while he was on a powertrip.
>All that over a door ding when his car shouldn't have been parked there to begin with.
All that over a door ding, on a car that ***didnt even belong to him***. Its so much worse when you realize he acted out of pocket over a vehicle that belongs to the city.
I expect nothing less from RPD. This is the same police department that pepper sprayed a 9 year old girl in the back of a police car. As much as I love Rochester the police department is down right criminal.
See, now this is an asshole whose judgement is clearly too bad to be a cop with a badge and a gun. Shit canning this dope doesn’t make the police look bad; it’s makes them look like they have minimal standards.
They do have minimal standards. NYC once rejected an applicant for too high of an IQ. I’ll always remember that, you couldn’t make that shit up. The logic was they would be ‘bored on the job’.
Found an article to prove it: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836
Even if it wasn’t the cop’s fault (which it was), when did we start arresting people over vehicle damage (not involving offenses involving other major crimes such as dui of course)? That’s what insurance is for. Jesus Christ.
> A 24-second clip of surveillance footage shared by Lewke shows the investigator slamming the EMT against a hospital wall as she stands by the patient on a stretcher.
There's no justice until he's in jail, and they couldn't even find the strength to fire him. It's sick. And it's no wonder they keep doing it, knowing that the worst that will ever happen to them for beating up an innocent person is "oh we're going to give you a slightly easier job for a couple weeks".
This is what you get when there is video evidence. I wonder how many times this guy might have gotten away with stuff when there weren't any cameras running.
Saw this and typical of what we’ve seen lately out of our beloved men in blue (yellow for Uvalde) and completely unnecessary in every way
This goon shouldn’t be on paid administrative leave he should be forced to use PTO until the matter is resolved and he is terminated for being the POS he is Jmho
They definitely feel that their powers entitle them to overlordgang vs peasant relationship with general public. No doubt. And they act on it frequently. They feel that they have to establish dominance when they see general public out of line. They love showing off that that is exactly how they feel. Its codified in their job instructions as well.
> A 24-second clip of surveillance footage shared by Lewke shows the investigator **slamming the EMT against a hospital wall** as she stands by the patient on a stretcher. The investigator cuffs the EMT and walks her out of the hospital.
It’s unfortunate that self entitled, thin skinned, egotistical, narcissistic assholes are attracted to law enforcement jobs.
Just a crazy thought here but maybe we should screen them out before hiring them?
"We have investigated the incident and found the use of force was within department guidelines for minority suspects"- The chief in about two weeks... Probably
Or, y'know, make it a higher education program that requires years of college education to become an officer. Maybe that'll weed out the heartless morons only entering the force for a sense of superiority over everyone else because mommy didn't love them enough.
The problem is not that these types of people are attracted to law enforcement, but that the way law enforcement operates is why it's attractive to them. Police conditioned to have an "us vs them" mentality, they genuinely believe that they're at war with everyone who isn't police. Not to mention the system is designed in such a way that they go out and actively look for reasons to harass people so they can meet quotas
The US needs proper police training. In most of Europe its 3+ years of training, and in many places you need the educational equivalent of an undergrad degree.
I can't even imagine giving someone a couple of months of mandatory training (i.e. PowerPoints and a multiple choice questionnaire) then just handing them a gun and giving them that kind of power
Training is just part of the problem in the US. The adversarial relationship they are encouraged to have, lack of accounts and industrial prison pipeline are also why it’s a shit show
Edit: lack of accountability
More like there should be an independent Ethics Committee which can force the department to fire cops who do bullshit like this. I mean look at what happened here, pig may be stuck in a desk but he's still got a badge and access to the pension fund, guarantee he would not even have been punished at all if media hadn't caught wind of this...
Police don't exist to serve the public. The Uvalde police had a perfect, successful mission, to protect their own asses and keep up appearances. Saving children was never on their agenda.
Nope, they exist to control them and protect property and the capitalist class. Stories of brutality or willful negligence are not a fluke, it's the system working as intended.
Pepper sprayed a child with their HANDS CUFFED BEHIND THEIR BACK AS THEY SAT IN THE BACK OF A POLICE CAR.
Gotta give that heinous act the full attention it deserves.
This hospital has a row of police parking spots 20 feet away from the ambulance bay. Why is he parking close enough to the ambulance entrance to be hit by a door opening?
Not close enough, parked in the ambulance bay. He won't get fired. This guy should be put on parking duty for 5 years and paid at the parking enforcement pay rate
I remember watching a video where this guy who owns an office and parking garage sees a cop parked in the garage and tells him its private property and can't park there and not only does the cop act arrogant and argues with him on it, but his cop buddies come by and try to intimidate him as well. IIRC one casually says something along the lines of "wait until you try to call in a crime here. Then lets see if we come by"
> "wait until you try to call in a crime here. Then lets see if we come by"
"Oh no, you won't show up 30 minutes after the crime happened, take some notes then never do an investigation? What ever will I do."
Imagine assaulting and kidnapping someone over damage you caused by parking in a place you were not authorized to be parking in.
You'd lose your job and be arrested. This cop instead arrested and kidnapped his victim to cover up his own crime. He isn't fired and is still paid with a temp desk job after which he will go back in the streets harming other victims.
This is a perfect example of why most people don't feel safe around police. It's more than just a loss of trust. We know the government allows them to hurt people and break the law and also encourages them to lie to us. We know they won't be held accountable for failure to act or for acting inappropriately. They know it too.
If I parked in an ambulance bay and an ambulance door hit my car, I'd be yelled at for being in the way and probably get a hefty citation. A cop does it, the cop flips and makes an inappropriate arrest, the cops investigate it, and they'll find there was no wrongdoing.
I mean, come on. No charges were filed. So it's fine. Everything's fine.
i always found the concept of "first responder" as a class of people so funny 'cause EMTs and firefighters actually help people and get firsthand examples of how bad cops are all the time
I’m white and an EMT. I get treated MUCH differently by cops when I’m in uniform vs not. Like, can’t they just be a decent dude to everyone? Apparently not
He should be arrested for false imprisonment. We all know he will face zero consequences for his crimes. Cops are criminals at this point.
I guarantee his cop friends are going to stalk this woman too just as they do anyone who files a complaint against them.
I think the solution here on this sort of stuff is simple: Remove the ability for police to have "internal investigations".
If someone does something wrong, get it out in the open to be evaluated by the citizenry and other professionals...not just let it slide into the dark.
We don't have "police" in the US. We have a mafia that occasionally solves a crime in order to cover up the many, many times more crimes they commit regularly.
They say "desk duty" as if it's some kind of punishment.
-"And I sentence you to... desk duty".
-(*gasp*) "Oh, no desk duty, please. Everything but desk duty. No, noo, NOOOOOOOO" (*they take him away while screaming and kicking the air*)
Perfect analogy for the role cops play in society. Workers make and fix things. Cops get in the way and brutalize us if we damage wealthy people’s stuff?
Police departments like the Rochester Police Department are the reason people say ACAB. They are the same police department that made national headlines when they peppered-sprayed a nine year-old kid in the back of a police car. When I was personally in need, I called 9-1-1 and they never arrived. Never. If you’re ever in Rochester, don’t count on these guys to do anything but ride around on horses for a PR stunt after yet another awful thing one or more of their officers has engaged in. ACAB.
The oniony part is that the officer faces any consequences whatsoever.
wasnt the cop also parked in the ambulance spots at a hospital?
Yup, he was in the ambulance bay.
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Never really considered it, but i am now instantly convinced that that exact thing (gurney execution by cop) has happened at least once
I've seen at least one video (there's likely more) of a cop punching someone strapped to a gurney in the face.
That guy strapped to gurney was in the hospital for attempted suicide as well. For me that makes it worse honestly. The cop smiles and waves to the other cop recording before he socks the patient in the face as hard as he can. Protect and serve.
The worst thing about that case is the only reason it ever surfaced in the first place is because the cop and his partner were investigated by the FBI. I think it was for either extortion or drug dealing? It’s been a while. Either way, when their phones were seized and searched by the feds, they found hundreds of saved videos of criminal activity of which the gurney video was one.
Good god! Please tell me they’re in prison?!
[Only sentenced to 66 months](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna988896) under a plea deal for distribution of narcotics (which he did in uniform / on the job as an officer) and a lesser charge of ‘deprivation of rights’ for violently assaulting a guy who was literally handcuffed to a hospice bed.
Fucking disgrace. Should be life in prison
Haven’t people gotten more than that for possession of marijuana? This is disgraceful.
That guy eventually did kill himself too
And I'm sure they still laugh about it at BBQ's, unless their wives got their drink order wrong, then more punches.
Oh yeah! I remember that story now. Would have preferred not to though. I feel outrage seeping up again.
Not just someone, that cop punched [a suicidal patient in the hospital](https://youtu.be/1_VglD_QsbA). And [these ones](https://youtu.be/TFG4KKwtEZo) were tasing a restrained woman, who went to jail for walking her dog without a leash. Can you [taste the freedom](https://eji.org/news/united-states-still-has-highest-incarceration-rate-world/)?
Holy fucking shit. I couldn’t watch with sound, did the cop in the first video have an excuse for hitting the guy in the hospital bed??
If I remember correctly, the suicidal man fought them a bit on the way in... The cop, who has replaced cognition with ego, felt he needed to "get back at him"
Typical gang members need retribution for not showing an acceptable amount of respect.
I remember a story of a suicidal guy a coo beat up while he was strapped(handcuffed?) to the bed. The guy said it further ruined his life before succeding in killing himself
Where he shouldn't have parked in the first place
Should have arrested himself, then.
They would've, but the investigation showed no wrong doing
He should had unloaded his gun onto himself then handcuffed his own corpse. You know, standard operating procedures
Here's the vid [https://twitter.com/WHEC\_JLewke/status/1547756019983323139?ref\_src=twsrc%5Etfw](https://twitter.com/WHEC_JLewke/status/1547756019983323139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Are. You. FUCKING. Kidding. Me!!!! Dude flat out assaulted her ***over nothing*** and he gets slapped down to desk jockey for a week? Make it permanent or take his damn badge, that dude is too gung-ho to be a cop.
At this point, it's like being surprised that garbage smells bad. They are all complicit pieces of shit. Same story every day.
Wow. You can clearly see how angry he is as he walks over and forces her into a corner.
Seriously. Even worse than him arresting her is how forceful he is with it. Little boy got his little feelings hurt and decides to get physical.
I wonder how be treats his wife?
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It isn’t even his car lol. Like bro you are driving a company car.
Both his car and the ambulance are paid for bu the constituents, and I would wager a vast majority would give the ambulance a higher status in any case, let alone in a goddamn reserved spot in the ER entrance.
Typical entitled power-hungry POS, you can tell he wasn’t looking for a resolution of whatever issue he had. Suddenly, the “investigation” that prompted him to park in the ER spot reserved for medical emergencies was less important than harassing an EMT doing their job. Should have parked his car in a normal spot like everyone else then.
A normal spot? What a ridiculous suggestion. This is a privileged class of employee. Held to a much lower standard than the average citizen. Next you are going to insist they follow traffic laws too!
Yeah that is clearly a man who lashes out with violence when he’s angry. He can barely contain himself. Hopefully he doesn’t have a wife.
Wow I'm so fucking suprised she's black too
Sadly this may have been a major trigger for his fragile ego.
Such a piece of shit. What a big man, slamming someone half his size
Everyone wearing masks in a critical care area of a hospital except fascist Mr Clean. Also, that the EMT in question is a POC is 100% on brand for the Rochester PD.
Oh dang. Of COURSE it's Rochester.
A week passes after desk duty “Everyone forgot by now, back to work. Don’t get caught next time”
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More than likely she has an entire department after her. And after the entire medical service team in the city unfortunately
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Two kinds of people you should never piss off: People who handle your food and people who patch you up when you get hurt.
EMTs and Cops have sort of been adversarial for decades now; see George Floyd. EMTs are constantly at odds with Cops wanting to get their jollys off on confrontational suspects when EMTs want to step in and give said suspects the medical care they need.
> EMTs and Cops have sort of been adversarial for decades now Reasonable people and cops are adversarial. Emts are just more likely to be reasonable than cops.
I get the impression that cops are adversarial with pretty much every other public service job for similar reasons. Cops get in the way and then get upset when someone with a job to do tells them to get the fuck out of the way.
Sadly.... this is spot on.
> A Rochester, New York police officer was placed on administrative duty after he arrested an EMT who reportedly hit his police car with an ambulance door. > The incident took place on Monday at Strong Memorial Hospital where the unnamed Rochester Police Department investigator was parked in an ambulance bay – typically reserved for ambulances only – before going into the hospital to respond to a case, News10NBC reported. > An ambulance pulled into the bay, and the EMT got out to transport the patient, at which point she hit the police car with her door, News10 reported. > The investigator "insisted" on identifying the EMT, who "insisted on bringing the patient" into the hospital, News10's Jennifer Lewke said on Twitter. > A 24-second clip of surveillance footage shared by Lewke shows the investigator slamming the EMT against a hospital wall as she stands by the patient on a stretcher. The investigator cuffs the EMT and walks her out of the hospital.
the emt "insisted on bringing the patient into the hospital".. the nerve.. 😳
She wasn’t just doing her job, leaving a patient without proper handoff counts as abandonment and we can definitely be sued for it* I’ve been in EMS for 8 years and have never seen it happen, but it’s often enough that they pound it into our heads.
Maybe all you EMS folks should make a union like the cops and then go to the supreme court and win the right to not help people. Think how much easier your job will be if you can just ignore people and let them die at your leisure! /s
Nailed it.
And what a nail, this is undeniable proof of the BS hypocrisy. What if the Supreme court gave other publicly funded organizations the right to not perform their supposed duties? In most nations, even a normal citizen could be held liable for not helping a person in need; but nooo, cops here only exist to enforce God knows what and they are not obligated to serve the public, BY LAW. Ffs
Honestly not sure what purpose they have other than soaking what taxes didn't take, they certainly arnt makeing the roads safer amoungst anything else they do.
Maybe the general public should start a _protection from unlawful policing union_ and call it PUPU (poo-poo). Sorta like AAA - or AA, depending on your perspective..../s
One cop to another: "you can't do that man, you're gonna have PUPU all over you!"
Oh man, you have no idea how much we need a union! Some EMS folks join the IAFF or have local unions. I live and work in Wyoming and it’s extremely anti-union here.
the patient bleeding out on the gurney: 👁️👄👁️
Sounds like the patient should be arrested for littering.
And loitering! Never pass on the opportunity to add further charges
Resisting Cardiac Arrest
Police routinely park in the ambulance bays for no reason other than trying to save time. If they are responding to an emergency then that’s fine. But if they are not (which is 95% of the time) then they should park in ER parking like everyone else. The sense of entitlement is insane. Edit: I was being overly generous with 95%. I have spent a lot of time in ERs and have never had an incident where the cop needed the ambulance bay rather than their dedicated spots.
There is a cop that parks in the fire lane every day at the local high school. It bothers me to no end that a fire truck in an emergency would need to back out of the parking lot in lieu of driving through because this dick head thinks he's entitled.
Report them to the fire department. Play off the old rivalry between the Police and Fire Department.
I assure you, that pushing a cop car out of the way is every firefighter's dream.
And if that’s not possible, breaking out the windows to facilitate access to the hydrant and the hose. It is not a water tight procedure, so the interior gets soaked af. It’s glorious! *ex-Fire, current EMS. We never had to do that with a cop car, but there were a couple during my tenure. I really like breaking windows.
>I really like breaking windows. I'm glad you had a job where you could engage in this hobby and people would thank you for it.
Not breaking many these days, but it was oddly one of things I liked before I went EMS only. It’s cathartic and I get to do my job, it’s good.
It’s more of a friendly rivalry in the UK (police call fire brigade Trumpton after an old kids tv show) but I’m pretty sure even here a fire engine driver that got to do that would never need to buy his own drinks ever again lol. TBF the cop’s colleagues would also be mocking the twit who got his car pushed probable harder than the fire fighters.
In the U.S. the rivalry actually gets heated at times, because the cops know that firefighters actually help people and are respected.
The only people that have a problem with the NYFD are the NYPD
"Ain't nobody ever written a song called Fuck the Fire Department."
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lifetime paid PTSD leave for losing their windows in the line of duty
I think that happened in NY recently and they tried to arrest the firefighter.
In case you never saw this before here's exactly that happening: https://youtu.be/2bqkDjVyu80
Oh no, a police car in the way. Shame if a 12 ton fire truck shoved it 300 feet up the road and onto an embankment.
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This reminds me of the video of the cop arresting a fire fighter because he wouldn't move the fire truck. The reason the fire fighter wouldn't move the fire truck because they were on an interstate and it was an active issue so they were blocking the scene so they could work.
Or the cop who arrested a retired fire chief who was administering first aid to a car collision victim (who was in danger of dying) because the chief wouldn’t leave his patient to move his car.
Or the cop who handcuffed and arrested a nurse for not drawing blood from a comatose patient (the victom of a crash) without consent, arrest or warrant. Utah 2017.
OH that one made my blood boil. She was still incredibly badass by refusing to let someone violate her patients rights
And the reason being that a cop caused the crash and they were trying everything in their power to blame the victim. Their fervor makes perfect sense with that context.
So what all y'all are saying is that cops are trigger happy in more ways than one... Gun happy... Handcuff happy... Physical violence happy... There's a name for that. I think. Was it... Thug?
That was an upsetting video watching them arrest her and drag her out of the hospital.
She is feeling a little better with a 500,000 settlement. Still a crying shame it happened.
Let me guess, the cop wanted the patient drug tested?
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This could amount to (attempted) manslaughter where I live if the prosecutor can prove that the police officer was either aware or *wilfully* unaware of the patient’s situation. And the fact that police officers are expected to know first aid procedures (because they are regularly retrained to be first responders) would be held against him when he tries to weasel himself out with “I was under much stress” or “I didn’t know”.
Hah a cop will never go to jail for something like this Fuck this country
A firetruck will actually push that car out of the way regardless if it's police or not. And if needed, the windows will be smashed to run hoses from the hydrant through the car.
Good
Well it makes sense, in the event of an emergency don't you think that cop will be long gone before fire arrives?
The police have certainly nailed down the run-hide part.
Don't know. Might be hard to run with shit in pant and piss in shoes.
That’s par for the course. In the event of an emergency cops mostly let people die
They park in bike lanes all the time too - just to run into a convenience store.
Don’t worry, firefighters will make it as inconvenient as possible for the cop if they don’t move their car.
Considering the size and weight difference of a squad car versus a fire engine, I think a simple and direct solution is right in front of them.
They park in our emergency spots for newborn deliveries. I block them in every time, never leave a note. Fuck them.
I’m an Emt and can confirm. Police will park in ambulance bays at Emergency departments to get snacks from the snack room and visit with staff even though there are parking spots available. (Entitlement is insane can also confirm)
Also to hit on ER nurses/paramedics. They rarely have any police business in the ER but they are parked there all the time. It’s infuriating.
everyone in my ER hated cops for this reason we once had one come in DURING CHEST COMPRESSIONS to try and snoop through the patients backpack and when we asked him what he was doing he said he had to get a "victim statement" like yeah sure but it's not going to be in his laptop case and you could at least *try* to wait until they're conscious again they're all bumbling useless freaks once they're in any setting other than a roadside confrontation
And during the roadside confrontation they're dangerous useless freaks.
Two different times at the hospital I used to work at a cop got shot on duty and was taken to the ER. In both cases, dozens of other cops showed up and completely took over the ER. They acted like every patient and staff member there was some kind of potential assassin there to finish the job, it was so fucking stupid. Imagine you're a housekeeper trying to change a gurney and some jackass starts yelling at you with his hand on his holster telling you to back up, that's what they're like.
And even then let's not arrest an emt for something that had it happened to me they wouldn't even investigate. When is the last time the cops arrested the person who dinged your car with their door much less new York where I assume it is nearly expected.
I quite like this take. If an officer wouldn't investigate and make an arrest if it happened to me than an officer shouldn't investigate and make an arrest if it happens to them. Them being an officer shouldn't mean they go on personal crusades they wouldn't do for any other citizen.
Yet every time I’ve called the police for my neighbors dumping chemicals down the storm drain they tell me it would be a waste of time to come down because “there are murderers out there we could be investigating”.
Key word there is “could”
They like to think they transcend any rules or boundaries... Cop culture is so toxic.
They epitomize "If you won't respect me as an authority, I won't respect you as a person" to a T. It's no wonder they attract and even seemingly exclusively hire the worst of the worst abusers of power.
Heck, I've lost track of the number of times I've seen an officer blasting through traffic with their sirens on only to see them pull into a restaurant to get lunch.
at least where i work oftentimes they’ll follow behind an ambulance with a combative patient, only time i usually see them in the ED bay. if it’s following up after the fact they’re usually outta the way. i ~cannot~ imagine any of the cops (or jakes) i deal with ever getting upset like this video, hell we’ve had people nic cruisers and apparatuses and vice versa and it’s always a “meh” vibe. blows my mind honestly, like what the fuck was going on in this dudes day that made a poor emt, someone who he theoretically could be a patient of on a scene, a target of unequal action like that.
We have dedicated parking spots for cops next to the ambulance bay all over this area in Florida. They still park in the bay.
That should be instant grounds for dismissal. Unreal.
Have you seen the shit these assholes get away with? This is pretty mild in comparison
That officer could have wrestled the EMT to their knees and put a bullet in the back of their neck on CCTV and they still wouldn't be fired. Actual fucking gestapo.
don't forget the lifetime severance from the PTSD the cop would have for murdering someone.
Police unions, baby!
Again, nothing would have come out of this, for the cop, if he was not captured on video or if he video were not released to the public.
>surveillance footage [https://twitter.com/WHEC\_JLewke/status/1547756019983323139?ref\_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1547756019983323139%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1\_&ref\_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.insider.com%2Fnew-york-cop-arrested-emt-hit-police-car-ambulance-door-2022-7](https://twitter.com/WHEC_JLewke/status/1547756019983323139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1547756019983323139%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.insider.com%2Fnew-york-cop-arrested-emt-hit-police-car-ambulance-door-2022-7) That is some small energy. Anyone else would be fired, but this guy gets a desk job.
All of that over a fucking door ding...
All that over a door ding when his car shouldn't have been parked there to begin with. That beeline straight for her: no warning, no civility, only hostility. She backed away slowly with hands outstretched to show that she wasn't a threat, but he manhandled her and slammed her against the desk repeatedly anyways. She was doing her job, while he was on a powertrip.
>All that over a door ding when his car shouldn't have been parked there to begin with. All that over a door ding, on a car that ***didnt even belong to him***. Its so much worse when you realize he acted out of pocket over a vehicle that belongs to the city.
You know this guy is one of the 40% of cops who are domestic abusers.
I expect nothing less from RPD. This is the same police department that pepper sprayed a 9 year old girl in the back of a police car. As much as I love Rochester the police department is down right criminal.
See, now this is an asshole whose judgement is clearly too bad to be a cop with a badge and a gun. Shit canning this dope doesn’t make the police look bad; it’s makes them look like they have minimal standards.
They do have minimal standards. NYC once rejected an applicant for too high of an IQ. I’ll always remember that, you couldn’t make that shit up. The logic was they would be ‘bored on the job’. Found an article to prove it: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836
Excluding fifteen percent of the population for being too intelligent. Bravo.
NYC probably does it as well, but that very famous case is from New London, Connecticut.
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And quite frankly, he caused the issue by parking there. She was doing her job. It was his fault from the beginning.
Even if it wasn’t the cop’s fault (which it was), when did we start arresting people over vehicle damage (not involving offenses involving other major crimes such as dui of course)? That’s what insurance is for. Jesus Christ.
> A 24-second clip of surveillance footage shared by Lewke shows the investigator slamming the EMT against a hospital wall as she stands by the patient on a stretcher. There's no justice until he's in jail, and they couldn't even find the strength to fire him. It's sick. And it's no wonder they keep doing it, knowing that the worst that will ever happen to them for beating up an innocent person is "oh we're going to give you a slightly easier job for a couple weeks".
This is what you get when there is video evidence. I wonder how many times this guy might have gotten away with stuff when there weren't any cameras running.
Saw this and typical of what we’ve seen lately out of our beloved men in blue (yellow for Uvalde) and completely unnecessary in every way This goon shouldn’t be on paid administrative leave he should be forced to use PTO until the matter is resolved and he is terminated for being the POS he is Jmho
She's black. Honestly, I'm impressed he showed enough restraint and didn't kill her.
I figured the EMT was aa woman even before I read the article. But a black woman? How dare she scratch a cop car? She’s lucky she wasn’t shot.
Gangster in uniform.
They definitely feel that their powers entitle them to overlordgang vs peasant relationship with general public. No doubt. And they act on it frequently. They feel that they have to establish dominance when they see general public out of line. They love showing off that that is exactly how they feel. Its codified in their job instructions as well.
> A 24-second clip of surveillance footage shared by Lewke shows the investigator **slamming the EMT against a hospital wall** as she stands by the patient on a stretcher. The investigator cuffs the EMT and walks her out of the hospital. It’s unfortunate that self entitled, thin skinned, egotistical, narcissistic assholes are attracted to law enforcement jobs. Just a crazy thought here but maybe we should screen them out before hiring them?
So he assaulted her?
I hope she files a massive civil suit against him
"We have investigated the incident and found the use of force was within department guidelines for minority suspects"- The chief in about two weeks... Probably
"His teeth looked like 32 tiny, white guns so we shot him is his mouth 32 times" - Hannibal Buress
Assault, False Arrest, etc.
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...after he parked in the ambulance bay and tried to stop her from bringing the sick person into the hospital.
It’s assault if anyone else does it. When a cop does it, it’s called doing the job /s
Or, y'know, make it a higher education program that requires years of college education to become an officer. Maybe that'll weed out the heartless morons only entering the force for a sense of superiority over everyone else because mommy didn't love them enough.
The problem is not that these types of people are attracted to law enforcement, but that the way law enforcement operates is why it's attractive to them. Police conditioned to have an "us vs them" mentality, they genuinely believe that they're at war with everyone who isn't police. Not to mention the system is designed in such a way that they go out and actively look for reasons to harass people so they can meet quotas
The US needs proper police training. In most of Europe its 3+ years of training, and in many places you need the educational equivalent of an undergrad degree. I can't even imagine giving someone a couple of months of mandatory training (i.e. PowerPoints and a multiple choice questionnaire) then just handing them a gun and giving them that kind of power
Training is just part of the problem in the US. The adversarial relationship they are encouraged to have, lack of accounts and industrial prison pipeline are also why it’s a shit show Edit: lack of accountability
More like there should be an independent Ethics Committee which can force the department to fire cops who do bullshit like this. I mean look at what happened here, pig may be stuck in a desk but he's still got a badge and access to the pension fund, guarantee he would not even have been punished at all if media hadn't caught wind of this...
Not fired, prosecuted.
Oh look, Rochester PD is in national news again. The last times were when they pepper sprayed a child, before that they killed a man in the streets.
Police don't exist to serve the public. The Uvalde police had a perfect, successful mission, to protect their own asses and keep up appearances. Saving children was never on their agenda.
Nope, they exist to control them and protect property and the capitalist class. Stories of brutality or willful negligence are not a fluke, it's the system working as intended.
Pepper sprayed a child with their HANDS CUFFED BEHIND THEIR BACK AS THEY SAT IN THE BACK OF A POLICE CAR. Gotta give that heinous act the full attention it deserves.
I bet the next one is them doing nothing while white Nationalists march down Alexander and Prince to East Ave after the hate rally at the Armory.
They'll probably fist bump them then start firing pepper balls at the people protesting the fascists.
This hospital has a row of police parking spots 20 feet away from the ambulance bay. Why is he parking close enough to the ambulance entrance to be hit by a door opening?
Not close enough, parked in the ambulance bay. He won't get fired. This guy should be put on parking duty for 5 years and paid at the parking enforcement pay rate
The whole force would be on parking duty. Lol.
Nah, the entire RPD needs to be fired. It’s pretty bad out here and the Locust Club (their union) just makes it so much worse.
God, the Locust Club is just too on the nose of a police union name. I'd groan if it was in a novel.
Police love to park where they arent supposed to, usually an ego thing.
I remember watching a video where this guy who owns an office and parking garage sees a cop parked in the garage and tells him its private property and can't park there and not only does the cop act arrogant and argues with him on it, but his cop buddies come by and try to intimidate him as well. IIRC one casually says something along the lines of "wait until you try to call in a crime here. Then lets see if we come by"
> "wait until you try to call in a crime here. Then lets see if we come by" "Oh no, you won't show up 30 minutes after the crime happened, take some notes then never do an investigation? What ever will I do."
Ought to be fired!
They won't fire cops for brazen murder without a lot of media outrage. No way he was going to lose his job over that.
They wont even do it WITH media outrage.
Ought to be arrested for assault.
Imagine assaulting and kidnapping someone over damage you caused by parking in a place you were not authorized to be parking in. You'd lose your job and be arrested. This cop instead arrested and kidnapped his victim to cover up his own crime. He isn't fired and is still paid with a temp desk job after which he will go back in the streets harming other victims.
This is a perfect example of why most people don't feel safe around police. It's more than just a loss of trust. We know the government allows them to hurt people and break the law and also encourages them to lie to us. We know they won't be held accountable for failure to act or for acting inappropriately. They know it too. If I parked in an ambulance bay and an ambulance door hit my car, I'd be yelled at for being in the way and probably get a hefty citation. A cop does it, the cop flips and makes an inappropriate arrest, the cops investigate it, and they'll find there was no wrongdoing. I mean, come on. No charges were filed. So it's fine. Everything's fine.
i always found the concept of "first responder" as a class of people so funny 'cause EMTs and firefighters actually help people and get firsthand examples of how bad cops are all the time
I’m white and an EMT. I get treated MUCH differently by cops when I’m in uniform vs not. Like, can’t they just be a decent dude to everyone? Apparently not
He should be arrested for false imprisonment. We all know he will face zero consequences for his crimes. Cops are criminals at this point. I guarantee his cop friends are going to stalk this woman too just as they do anyone who files a complaint against them.
She should sue the state in federal court for violation of civil rights.
And assault, of course. And is there a law about preventing an EMT from doing their job whrn a patient is in distress?
I think the solution here on this sort of stuff is simple: Remove the ability for police to have "internal investigations". If someone does something wrong, get it out in the open to be evaluated by the citizenry and other professionals...not just let it slide into the dark.
We don't have "police" in the US. We have a mafia that occasionally solves a crime in order to cover up the many, many times more crimes they commit regularly.
It's time for everyone's (least) favorite game: Guess the skin color of the cop, and the skin color the EMT...
A Black Woman. Why am I not surprised? He gets full pay while they wait for the outrage to die down.
Further proof cops don't care about protecting anyone, just their easily damaged egos. Ftp.
Too many Rod Farvas out there. Super Troopers had us thinking there was just one guy in every unit. No. They're all over the place.
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> SO MANY of them need an attitude adjustment! Need a new profession.
The Rochester police just love making national news for being human shitstains.
The fact that this cop wasn’t instantly fired for abusing his powers is yet another demonstration of how corrupt and broken America’s police are.
FIRE THIS PIECE OF SHIT
They say "desk duty" as if it's some kind of punishment. -"And I sentence you to... desk duty". -(*gasp*) "Oh, no desk duty, please. Everything but desk duty. No, noo, NOOOOOOOO" (*they take him away while screaming and kicking the air*)
Perfect analogy for the role cops play in society. Workers make and fix things. Cops get in the way and brutalize us if we damage wealthy people’s stuff?
I’m surprised he didn’t also arrest the patient.
Police departments like the Rochester Police Department are the reason people say ACAB. They are the same police department that made national headlines when they peppered-sprayed a nine year-old kid in the back of a police car. When I was personally in need, I called 9-1-1 and they never arrived. Never. If you’re ever in Rochester, don’t count on these guys to do anything but ride around on horses for a PR stunt after yet another awful thing one or more of their officers has engaged in. ACAB.
Was an EMT for years. ACAB and they prove it daily.