Three Hours
By Mitch Berg
It’s not just law abiding home and business owners that can’t get any help from overstretched Minneapolis law enforcement until it’s too late:.
If I’m reading that correctly – and I believe I am – the dispatcher was aware that the guy had passed out on the train platform for three solid hours before someone checked him out.
This is “New York City in the 1970s“ level stuff, here.
May 23rd, 2022 at 6:32 am
They just wanted make sure he was dead. No sense sending the paramedics for a guy who’ll never make it anyway.
May 23rd, 2022 at 8:58 am
The thing that strikes me most is that the death of George Floyd showed us each MPD officer needs to be carrying Narcan, or at least some of them. Let’s be blunt; saving this guy’s life could have been a matter of ten minutes or less for one of the transit police. Last time I rode, I saw no less than three of them respond to a fare cheater on the death train from Snelling–yes, all of them armed, the whole 9 yards.
There are resources out there if only there is the political will to let them work.
May 23rd, 2022 at 10:45 am
Liberals: if you’re a vaccine refuser, you’re a threat to public health and safety. You’re not entitled to medical treatment and it’s your own fault if you die.
Looks as if that prescription has been expanded to include druggies. Can we apply it to gang-bangers next?
May 23rd, 2022 at 12:20 pm
Can we apply it to gang-bangers next?
JD, gang-bangers already exempt… oh wait, I confused prescrioption with prosecution. My bad.
May 23rd, 2022 at 2:10 pm
You think an MPD copper is gonna go to Lake Street at 2am, to assist a black drug addict? lol, no.
May 23rd, 2022 at 2:13 pm
Surely more than one good Samaritan happened by in 3 hours. 10/10 his pockets were empty.