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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perps alway ask to go to the hospital. It doesn’t appear this detainee had any recognizable medical emergencies at the time. I blame the slow intake at the jail. The responding officers did everything a reasonable person would do.[/quote]

How could you look at that footage of him insisting there was a gunman in his apartment when it was clearly established that there wasn’t and not recognize the possibility of psychosis, which is a medical emergency?[/quote]

Psychosis is a psychiatric emergency, not a medical emergency. The suspect was in custody. A reasonable person would believe a handcuffed suspect locked in the back of a police vehicle was incapable of inflicting grave bodily injury to themselves or others. The jail would have taken the standard precautions if the suspect demonstrated suicidal ideation. [/quote]

Psychiatry is a branch of medicine.  Psychiatric emergencies are medical emergencies.

My guess is that the combination of panic and hands behind his back led to positional asphyxia.  Someone restrained like that needs eyes on them.[/quote]

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