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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From NYT:

[quote]Mr. Nelson also sought to portray the medical care that Mr. Floyd received from paramedics as lacking, saying they had not inserted a tube down Mr. Floyd’s throat until nine minutes after they arrived.[/quote]

WTF. Didn't we learn from the paramedic herself that the cops had told her to back off?![/quote]

[b]You may be confusing an off duty MFD employee with the dispatched EMTs who treated Floyd. [/b]The dispatch EMTs were both male.

In my opinion he was mostly trying to elicit testimony on the complications at the scene that led the EMTs to choose to move to another location (which required one to drive the ambulance while Lane assisted the other in the back of the ambulance). This is probably really the main point that could bolster the assertion of a complex scene/crowd. Defense has floated the concept of crowd complications in the use of force sections of the trial. It’s not a particularly strong argument as far as I see it, but the defense has to present some narrative.

Any critical care complications could create reasonable doubt, but as we move into medical testimony it’ll probably become more clear that Floyd’s pulse couldn’t be detected before an ambulance arrived. There’s no objectively reasonable wrongdoing by the EMTs (as far as we’ve seen), so it would be hard for Nelson to go too far down that path without losing credibility. 
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DP. I think PP is referencing Genevieve Hanson, a Mpls EMT who just happened to be in the area, she wasn’t dispatched. She testified early on. [/quote]

Yes, Genevieve Hanson is an off duty fire fighter who interacted with the officers at the scene. She testified she was off duty and did not have her ID. Thao asked her not to enter the scene (stated something like “if you are a firefighter you would know this”). For medical emergencies fire fighters and paramedics are typically cross trained, of course. I assume that’s the case here because a fire truck followed the ambulance for the emergency dispatch and arrived by cup foods after the ambulance left to the second location. One of the other MFD employees on that truck interacted with Hanson, who was still at the scene. I am just clarifying that Hanson wasn’t the dispatched paramedic or EMT. [/quote]

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