"After the first round of punches, the patient was "taken off the strtcher to the ground and was restrained again, patient was thrown by ESU again on to the stretcher."
"The emotionally disturbed patient was punched multiple times in the face by the cops on July 20th"
Three points that I followed up to advance my understanding was violence and EMS violence and the police, combative/patients with mental illness statistics nationwide.
The article addresses emergency response because it involves violence that can occur on an emergency scene, it invovles the safety of EMTS as well as the patient.
The actors that are referred to are FDNY EMTs- those who treated the patient and stopped the cops from harming them and emergency service unit officers (ESU)- those who harmed the patient further.
The main point of the article is to exaplin how police acted innappropriately in prescence of a patient and acted irrationally in response to a patient's behavior. It is supported using an incident report obtained by the news.
The article conducted their research through FDNY documents obtained by the news.