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Old 02-26-2014, 02:46 PM  
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Originally Posted by Matt 26z View Post
Also note that police officers in the US are not allowed to do anything medically. It's an insurance liability. So they just let him sit there not breathing. Even if his wife knew CPR she wouldn't have been allowed to administer it. They aren't going to even check for a pulse until the EMS arrives to do that.
This is not true. My son stopped breathing when he was 3 and the first people on the scene were the police. They had oxygen, first aid and a defibrillator. They were able to get him going and stabilized until the EMT's got there.....
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