Police officer uses Taser and pepper spray on a motionless, silent driver w/ medical emergency

[OldRedneck]

9. Let's hope the victim sues the living shit out of the department and the individual cop

My understanding is the guy was suffering a stroke.

I'm an Advanced Life Support EMT in a rural county about 2 hours away from Fredericksburg.

Most strokes -- 93% or so -- are ischemic strokes. That is, blood flow to the brain is disrupted, usually by a blood clot in an artery supplying blood to the brain. Can be partial or complete blockage; can affect a small or large area of the brain.

Either way, there's what we call The Golden Hour.

The Golden Hour is the sixty minutes from the time the stroke hits to the time the docs in the stroke center start clearing the blockage. You need to get to a stroke center within that time. Depending on the severity of the stroke, how quickly you get to a stroke center, and how quickly they open the blockage, the effects of the stroke can be completely reversed or mostly reversed or somewhat reversed.
https://www.caring.com/questions/golden-hour-stroke

Either way, when a person suffers a stroke, there is no time to waste dicking around with a half-wit cop.

EVERYONE needs to know how to recognize a stroke because strokes don't happen only to old people.
Start here:
http://www.stroke.org/understand-stroke/recognizing-stroke



NOTE: While ischemic strokes account for around 93% of strokes, the other type of stroke is a hemorrhagic stroke caused by a burst blood vessel in the brain. Hemorrhagic strokes are bad news, often fatal within minutes.