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DustyJoe

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14. non medical liability

Fri Sep 23, 2016, 11:15 AM

Sep 2016

Forget the fact they're cops for a second.

This has happened, a good samaritan trying to render aid at a traffic accident scene to stop a victims bleeding, but the victim still lost the limb. The victim sued the good samaritan because they held no health care certification or license and applied the tourniquet incorrectly, too long etc. Good samaritan loses his shirt in the lawsuit.

California’s Supreme Court has ruled that “the state’s ‘Good Samaritan’ law providing tort immunity for rescuers applies only to medical personnel providing medical help

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/can-good-samaritans-be-sued-for.html

Kind of like this ruling, I don't know what Oklahoma law requires, but these types of laws don't help. Now if the cops didn't call medical as a shooting victim bleeds out then they're just murderers watching his lifeblood run down the road.

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What's with this police policy of letting shooting victims just bleed out? [View all] bagelsforbreakfast Sep 2016 OP

The official policy is to render first aid. The cops just don't do that. DetlefK Sep 2016 #1

Time and time again as witnessed on video FreakinDJ Sep 2016 #7

non medical liability DustyJoe Sep 2016 #14

If you're dead you can't testify. MaeScott Sep 2016 #2

DING DING DING Thread Winner folks FreakinDJ Sep 2016 #8

I seem to remember a time when police departments expressed regret for fatal shootings tanyev Sep 2016 #3

I recall that! Now, for some cops, killing is a sport. The bad cops need to be weeded out, but RKP5637 Sep 2016 #6

Especially since the bad cops have created a corrupt culture meow2u3 Sep 2016 #16

I remember it too. Maybe not all over the country but lostnfound Sep 2016 #11

Dead men can't talk. Odin2005 Sep 2016 #4

Enhanced first aid training and carrying gunshot kits Lee-Lee Sep 2016 #5

That presupposes the will is there. malthaussen Sep 2016 #10

Raise the expectations and sometimes people live up to them lostnfound Sep 2016 #13

Since police work can be dangerous, you'd think that kind of training would be mandatory Arkansas Granny Sep 2016 #12

Of course they get first aid training awoke_in_2003 Sep 2016 #18

All the training and gunshot kits in the world awoke_in_2003 Sep 2016 #17

Instead they walked backwards exboyfil Sep 2016 #9

Exactly! redwitch Sep 2016 #15