Paramedic Who Injected Elijah McClain With Ketamine Before His Death Avoids Prison

treefrog, 11 days ago

What happened to giving people Valium to calm them down?

Ketamine is for surgery. And feeling good. Not tranquilizing random strangers.

NatakuNox, 11 days ago

What happened to talking to people to figure out what’s going on? They straight up saw a black person walking home and murdered him with drugs.

treefrog, 11 days ago

I hear that too.

I was tased three times during a mental health crisis. And acknowledge that if my skin were darker I probably would have been shot instead.

Still, ketamine is an anaesthetic and can have severe drug interactions. Valium is a hypnotic sedative and is used often in hospitals to calm people down.

The paramedic was trying to tranquilize this guy like a fucking horse.

Yes the situation was fucked up to begin with. However this paramedic in particular made a bad call that killed somebody. And I hope the family sues the shit out of him.

NotAnotherLemmyUser, 11 days ago

Link inside this article, at least 94 people have died from sedatives when restrained by police from 2012 to 2021.

apnews.com/…/investigation-police-use-of-force-se…

Would be interesting to note how many people have been given sedatives at all when restrained by police… averaging 9-10 deaths/year should definitely cause us to rethink the viability and even legality of this practice.

octopus_ink, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

This specific case enrages me. The number of people who needed to fuck up for it to go this badly…

(starting with the Karen who called them in the first place)

So far as I can tell, light sentences and home team advantage all around. And not a shred of sincere remorse for what happened to that young man that I can tell.

Edit - Against all odds and with quite unique circumstances there was something resembling justice for George Floyd. Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, and others are getting the more familiar treatment.