At urging of Minneapolis police, Hennepin EMS workers subdued dozens with a powerful sedative

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

At urging of Minneapolis police, Hennepin EMS workers subdued dozens with a powerful sedative

EMS workers used date rape drug ketamine, stopping some suspects' hearts or breathing.

By Andy Mannix Star Tribune JUNE 14, 2018 — 10:46 PM

Minneapolis police officers have repeatedly requested over the past three years that Hennepin County medical responders sedate people using the powerful tranquilizer ketamine, at times over the protests of those being drugged, and in some cases when no apparent crime was committed, a city report shows.

On multiple occasions, in the presence of police, Hennepin Healthcare EMS workers injected suspects of crimes and others who already appeared to be restrained, according to the report, and the ketamine caused heart or breathing failure, requiring them to be medically revived. Several people given ketamine had to be intubated.

These are among the findings of an investigation conducted by the Office of Police Conduct Review, a division of the city’s Department of Civil Rights. The draft report has been circulated narrowly within City Hall but not disseminated to the public. The Star Tribune has obtained a copy.

The number of documented ketamine injections during Minneapolis police calls increased from three in 2012 to 62 last year, the report found, including four uses on the same person. On May 18, around the time the draft report was completed, Minneapolis police Cmdr. Todd Sauvageau issued a departmental order saying that officers “shall never suggest or demand EMS Personnel ‘sedated’ a subject. This is a decision that needs to be clearly made by EMS Personnel, not MPD Officers.”
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[OregonBlue]

1. Sounds like the police all need to be in jail.

[RKP5637]

2. More and more a police state each day, the US. n/t

[MineralMan]

3. I'm betting that most of that 62 were people of color, too.

Disgusting.

[marble falls]

24. Not a doubt in my mind.

[onlyadream]

4. This would kill me due to low blood pressure. Nt

[Zoonart]

9. Me too...

The Republic is dying.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. "Resisting arrest" would be added to the charges. NT

[Lonestarblue]

5. What on earth has happened to this country!

I feel like I’m living in an alternate universe where people’s basic rights are just ignored by those in power. Many police now seem to think that they have the right to freely violate individual rights. Forced drugging without even knowing whether people have existing health problems that might cause their deaths from the drug is unscionsible. But I’m thinking that about daily behavior in this country I used to feel good about. I know some of the reasons for why we’re here, but how how do we get out of this mess? Voting for Democrats will help, but right-wing propaganda isn’t going away.

[randr]

6. EMS workers should also pay a consequence

[relogic]

7. Deadly tools in the...

hands of empowered thugs. Our law enforcement no longer deserve the benefit of our trust. I’ve tired of reading here the outright brutality and subsequent manipulating of incriminating evidence that would reveal their lawlessness.

Americans don’t need finger wagging at us from law and order fascist types as to the value of ordered society. The police culture has become the very oppressors of this order too many times.

[bitterross]

8. I guess the EMS folks don't take the Hippocratic oath there.

They should all be fired. That is dangerous, immoral and unethical.

[pazzyanne]

14. No, but they do have this:

To guide their actions, paramedics swear an oath and abide by a conduct code adopted by the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAMET) in 1978"

[arithia]

10. sickening

Save them from "exhaustion" my ass. This drug can save lives all right... in a controlled, clinical setting. There are psych patients all over this country eager to get into Ketamine trials for depression (this sh*t stops suicidal impulses with one dose. One. lasting effects, too) and these assholes are using it as a weapon, playing with people's lives.

Just sickening.

[Stuart G]

11. Very sad...that the cops could order this. Put them in jail

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Cops are practicing medicine without a license.

They and the EMP people need to be hauled into court.

I sense lawsuits in the works.

[heaven05]

13. damn!!!

what a difference an election makes. Don't get me wrong, this city and nation have always been FULL of racist wypipo. This elected potus wypipo have now told ALL POLICE, during the campaign, that they had to get meaner, meaning more racist.

And the depths of the racist hate, that wypipo had been nurturing quietly and media has been ignoring since slavery and years of major Civil Rights legislation, 48, 57, 64, 65, has popped open like a HUGE infected tumour all over the racial, cultural fabric that is america.

All this legislation to help wypipo do the right thing by their fellow citizens of color and culture and here we are 2018 and fighting the same racist mindset of the 1800's, 1900's 21st century...goddamn the racists of ameriKKKa!!!!!

FUBAR.

[TNNurse]

15. I worked in a hospital for 37 years.

I had no idea EMS had access to ketamine. Is this legal everywhere? And EMS should work through protocols and ER MD orders not law enforcement. Law enforcement does not have the authority to order meds anywhere. People should be fired, licenses revoked, people locked up.

[Sgent]

19. I would think most paramedic teams have it

its a better option in the field than morphine / dilaudid for instance, and they should have something.

That said, I agree. Who the hell was the MD and who the hell kept on restocking the ambulance?

[7962]

22. I agree. The PD doesnt have a medical license to order medications.

[irisblue]

16. Minnesota Nice? Not in Minneapolis apparently.

[Uncle Joe]

18. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread mahatmakanejeeves

[truthisfreedom]

20. Ketamine or Vitamin K is horse tranquilizer

Used as a recreational drug, it causes severe hallucinations and strangely enough can cause long-lasting reduction of depression.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

26. Are the inmates happier?

Just trying to look on the sunny side...heh heh. (re depression relief) Not funny. i know. Just throwin that out there.
Animal tranquilizer alone seems like a Federal civil Rights violation.

[truthisfreedom]

27. I don't think it's funny at all. I find it fascinating.

Unintended consequences... perhaps in some cases the victims had a nice trip AND ended up in a better mind set.

[7962]

21. And MILLIONS of Minneapolis taxpayer dollars will be paid out to these victims.

But will ANYONE with the PD be held responsible???

[BigDemVoter]

23. I CANNOT believe this is legal under ANY circumstance.

[Solly Mack]

25. Those cops need to go to prison.

As should the medical responders.

They could have said no.

Even with any possible reprisals from the police - they still should have said no.

And the victims should sue! sue! sue!

[truthisfreedom]

28. +1