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AP said:NEW YORK – An emergency medical technician accused of refusing to help a dying pregnant woman while on his coffee break has been shot and killed near a New York City nightclub.
Police say Jason Green was shot in the face near Manhattan's Greenhouse club Sunday morning. Green was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. There have been no arrests.
Green and fellow EMT Melisa Jackson had been under criminal investigation for their handling of a distressed woman at a Brooklyn bakery Dec. 9. They were in line at the bakery when 25-year-old Eutisha Rennix collapsed.
Witnesses say the EMTs told workers to call 911 and left without helping the six-months-pregnant woman, whose prematurely born baby also died.
Green and Jackson insisted they tried to get help. They were suspended without pay.
traumajunkie said:First off, I did not know either DISPATCHER that was involved in the bakery incident, but I just want to say the media has a way of screwing things up...because of this a DISPATCHER is dead.
emtmike said:i completely agree with traumajunkie, no matter what , the fact is that a terrible mistake was made and changes were made, but the fact is that this dispatcher, who may have made mistakes, was hung out to dry by the media, now what happens when an emt makes a mistake with a pt and the pt dies, now everyone with an illegal gun is going out to kill the ems workers, this is not going to end well, and i feel that this problem will take a few nasty turns in its course
Stendec said:It was a dispatcher? I wouldn't think I'd want a dispatcher intervening in an armed robbery or rushing into a fire, no matter how much radio traffic they've heard. That's like people who claim that we should do such and such because that's what they saw on TV.
Besides, don't most first aid programs start with the very first thing you do is call 911?
Stendec said:It was a dispatcher? I wouldn't think I'd want a dispatcher intervening in an armed robbery or rushing into a fire, no matter how much radio traffic they've heard. That's like people who claim that we should do such and such because that's what they saw on TV.
Besides, don't most first aid programs start with the very first thing you do is call 911?
Phillyrube said:
EMT Jason Green ...and his girlfriend, Melisa Jackson, who is also an EMT
AdaFire38 said:I'm still not seeing anything about this guy being a dispatcher....
cpdchief said:If I remember correctly, the guy was an EMT who was assigned to work dispatch that day.