EMTs Behaving Badly - Very Badly

It is very unusual to see a story in the feeds as clear cut as the story coming out of Springfield, Illinois, where Paramedics Peggy Finley and Peter Cadigan were arrested and charged with murder after the death of Earl Moore Jr, a patient under their care. Yes, you read that right...murder.

Officer Axon is always watching...

It turns out these two decided it would be a good idea to approach Mr. Moore, who was having an encounter with local law enforcement. While witnesses state it was alcohol withdrawal, the coroner places the cause of death as traumatic asphyxiation, meaning it was the archaic methods of restraint used by this pair that killed him and, since PD had their cameras running, every comment was caught on camera. While we still don't know *exactly* what happened, the video is damning and shows practices that we've known are dangerous for 50 years.

Since recording the pair has pled not guilty but has not posted the $1,000,000 bail in the case.

After that story we fly over to Memphis, TN for the JEMS story about two Memphis EMTs who are on administrative leave following the death of a patient they treated. While we assumed this case would be similar to the open and shut case as before, the more we read the more interesting the story gets.

Two EMTs are placed on leave, but there is no mention of their omission or commission of care that led to harm. Instead we learned that their patient, who died 3 days after being admitted to the hospital, we tazed, pepper sprayed and suffered multiple traumatic injuries at the hands of five Police Officers, who have all been fired, according to the story. Perhaps this is just a CYA maneuver to protect the employees from constant questions?

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