DENVER (AP) — A police recruit who had to have both of his legs amputated after losing consciousness and repeatedly collapsing during fight training at Denver’s police academy is suing those who allegedly forced him to continue the “barbaric hazing ritual” after paramedics ignored warning signs.
Victor Moses, 29, alleges in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that aggressive officers knocked him down multiple times in the second round of “fight day” last year, with one of them shoving him off the mat and causing him to hit his head on the floor. He said he was pressured to continue, with officers picking him up and setting him back on his feet, before paramedics standing by were asked to check him out, the lawsuit said.
Moses told them he had the sickle cell trait, which puts him at an increased risk of medical complications from high-intensity exercise. He also said he had very low blood pressure and complained that his legs were cramping, according to the lawsuit. The symptoms are danger signs for people with his condition.
Nevertheless, paramedics cleared Moses to return to training, which the suit alleges was a decision made to support the police.
For a group that wants to distance itself from gangs, it sure doesn’t help their case when they jump in new recruits.
If this is what they do to their own, imagine what they want to do to you.
Of course he’s black.
The man has Sickle Cell Anemia, if those medics were aware of that and didn’t pull him out the first time he complained of cramping, they’re just as shitty as the abusive aggressors.
No one should EVER be hazed like this, but I would absolutely sue any person who was aware of this practice if I were him. I cannot imagine the pain he felt or his loss he’s currently feeling. Fucking egregious. Throw those cops and medics under the courthouse.
Not a single cop I have encountered could fucking endure what was listed here
Everyone from their co up to the commissioner should be replaced, hazing only happens when the people in charge ignore it.
Person wants to join the bastards, is shocked to be abused by bastards.
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If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.Fuck it, I’ll say it… if you have a medical trait that makes it risky to do high intensity exercises, don’t take up a career that requires high intensity exercise. The law suit should be directed at the person that did his pre-employment physical and OK’d him to work. Firefighters get physicals and have physical agility tests, cops get physicals and have physical agility tests, as do paramedics (to an extent). The jobs require it in emergency situations so they shake you out in controlled situations. It is what it is. Don’t let your hatred of cops make you gloss over that fact. If they targeted him in any way it is a valid complaint and if their agility test isn’t certified they can get in trouble, but it exists for a reason. If he couldn’t hang, they should have removed him.
I don’t have much thought experience in this realm so I’m happy to be shown I’m wrong. I put all the blame on the paramedics who foolishly, probably, gave deference to non-medical folks who wouldn’t know better.
But on the surface I see a benefit to that being a rite of passage in becoming a cop. If I’m a cadet expecting to, in a couple of months, have a non-zero chance to encounter someone trying to kill me at, say, a domestic violence call, I’d want to know what such an encounter would be like before it happens outside a controlled environment. No?
*I am distinguishing this from the bullshit fake fear that gets Black Americans murdered by cops seemingly every day.
Everyone has a “non-zero chance” of encountering someone trying to kill them literally all the time.
This is simply gang initiation.
Train them for longer. Actually train them to fight. There are ways to bring someone down safely and if you know them you are less likely to hurt the person you are trying to subdue as well as yourself. Put them in a ring once they know how to fight and have them fight each other in a safe and sanctioned way. Once they graduate that level, have them spar against two partners to see what it’s like to be outnumbered. Train them to be honourable in combat ie. defensive and not out to hurt people as a priority.
And of course train them that civilians are not their enemies.
None of this requires barbaric hazing.
Oh and just as a matter of note: people don’t learn skills through chaos. You learn through repetition and once you have burned the action into your muscle memory through hours and hours and hours of practice, only then do you put your skills into chaos. Nobody gets into the ring in combat sports off the street. They practice until they can do what they need to do without thinking and only then will they be able to hopefully maintain the discipline to take the right actions under stress and chaos.
Houston Tipping is an easy to remember name, what happened to this guy here, was not an isolated incident
