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Absolutely fucking bonkers that it's legal to just eyeball a stranger and inject them with drugs if working under the watchful eye of a badge, that this "techni
by ambicapter 3y ago
Absolutely fucking bonkers that it's legal to just eyeball a stranger and inject them with drugs if working under the watchful eye of a badge, that this "technique" is approved without any evidence that it actually helps.
> Ho was a leading researcher on Taser safety and an expert witness for the company in wrongful death lawsuits. In a 2007 deposition in one such case, he argued for a potentially “life-saving tactic” of having sedative injections quickly follow Taser shocks, saying the combination could shorten struggles that, if prolonged, might end in death.
> Some doctors at his public hospital in Minneapolis were using “something called ketamine, which is an analog to LSD,” he said. “It’s sort of an animal tranquilizer.”
> The drug became more common outside the hospital in 2008 when Hennepin County paramedics were given permission to use it.
> An American College of Emergency Physicians panel that included Ho said in 2009 that ketamine had shown “excellent results and safety” while acknowledging no research proved it would save lives.
These people come off as a bunch of clowns, holy cow.
- jrflowers 3y ago>ketamine, which is an analog to LSD Ketamine is an LSD analog much in the same way that caffeine is an analog of C4 explosive
- banish-m4 3y agoThe police also use "mental reasons" as an excuse to arrest anyone they don't like or who challenges their egos. It's often used to cover-up uses of excessive force.
- dylan604 3y agoare you saying that their reasons were mental; aka totally bonkers logic, or that they are claiming the person has mental issues? I'll agree with the former, but if the latter, then that's even more infuriating that someone suffering gets physically assaulted because Officer Bumpkin is untrained in deescalation and only trained in ratcheting up to use of violence.
- banish-m4 2y agoIt happened to a late friend of mine in Los Altos who was minding his own business walking in a parking lot while playing the augmented reality game Ingress. The cops beat the shit out of his arms and legs, and then dumped him off in the county's lockdown ward to coverup their misdeeds. They knew they could get away with it and did so.