Two paramedics in Illinois were accused of murder: they were rude and did not want to help a man with alcohol addiction

Two paramedics from Springfield, Illinois, have been charged with the murder of a man who was suffering from alcohol withdrawal. NewYorkTimes.

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“I’m not playing with you right now,” one of the paramedics said in a rude tone to a patient, according to a body camera video. The police said that the emergency medical personnel "acted indifferently" and rudely towards the patient in need of help.

In the early hours of December 18, three police officers responded to reports of several gunmen in an apartment building, according to a December 20 Springfield Police Department report.

Police "quickly figured out" that the man who called XNUMX needed medical attention, police said. Police said another person at the home indicated that the man who called police was "suffering from hallucinations" associated with withdrawal symptoms.

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Ambulance medical personnel arrived about 15 minutes later and were "indifferent to the patient's condition," police said.

Body camera footage released by Sangamon County shows paramedic Peggy Finlay repeatedly yelling at a patient who is lying on the bed and ordering him to sit down. She then tells him that he should get up and go to the ambulance.

“I'm not playing with you now,” says Miss Finley. "You'll have to walk because we won't carry you."

The footage shows how the police are trying to get to his feet panting man. It stands briefly before collapsing.

“From the footage from the officers’ body cameras, it is clear that the patient could not walk and the medical staff did not provide any assistance,” the police said.

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"I can't," the man says as the officers haul him back to his feet. Eventually, after falling at least two more times, he is slowly helped out of the house to the stretcher, the footage shows.

Ms. Finlay then orders the sick man, who appears to be kneeling on the ground and hunched over the stretcher, to climb on it, as seen in the footage.

The video does not show if the medics put him on a stretcher. Instead, the footage shows them tying him to a stretcher. The patient died upon arrival at the hospital, police said.

According to the coroner's report, he died of "compression and positional asphyxia due to being restrained face down on a paramedic's transport bunk/stretcher in conditions of lethargy and underlying chronic alcoholism. He was strapped into his back and lower body."

According to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, alcohol withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, hallucinations and agitation, can occur hours after a person has had their last drink.

Finley and her colleague Peter Cadigan were being held at the Sangamon County Detention Center on $1 million bail, said W. Scott Hanken, Finley's attorney.

Hanken said that Finley was a member of the Lifestar Ambulance Service. Hanken also added that Finlay's behavior, which he described as either "indifference" or "lack of manners at the bedside", did not cause the patient's death.

“In this case, it's clearly a red herring, and that's the first thing people want to point out,” Hanken said. “But a bad attitude is not a crime.”

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for January 19, court records show.

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The Springfield Police Department said its officers followed procedure in handling the call.

“Officers who are not emergency medical technicians are not trained or equipped to provide necessary medical care or transport patients in these situations,” the department said. “Officers transferred care of the patient to licensed medical professionals on scene in accordance with Springfield Police Department policy.”

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