7 officers suspended in Rochester

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I've been involved firsthand with addicts who have subjected themselves to large doses of meth and other drugs.....we arrive for an overdose, the person is stuporous, incoherent and almost unresponsive...in the process of being assessed, the person can go from stuporous to wide awake to extremely agitated in less than a minute.....they spit, they bite, they start yelling and screaming, thrashing around trying to hit, kick, grab you, as violent a person as you can imagine.....if you're lucky, they're not normally big and strong, because they are almost uncontrollable.... and if they have access to anything that could be used as a weapon against you, they'll try to use it.....its usually about the time that they're agitated and uncontrollable that the cops arrive on scene....and they're forced to subdue them for the safety of everyone, including the addict....and of course, thats about where the media starts showing the incident pretending that the poor addict was just sitting there.....
And once the addict is in the agitated and violent state, his body starts really reacting badly to the increased heart rate and breathing caused by the adrenaline interacting with the chemicals in his system..... just as quickly as he went from being stuporous to violent, he goes from violent and uncontrollable to unresponsive and in cardiac arrest....and normal resuscitative actions often are ineffective because of the damage to his body.....
Its a $hitty thing to be involved in, and almost always has a bad outcome.....and way to easy to blame the cops who are just doing what they're trained to do to protect everybody....
All the Monday morning quarterbacks need to shut up and get the facts before they open their mouths!!
I thought this clip might be relevant to what you posted.

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1303010119093870593?s=20
 
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