Recent content by Duke Powell

I refuse to post anonymously. I live in Burnsville, MN and am a retired paramedic with Hennepin County Medical Center located in Minneapolis. I did my first ambulance call in 1971 and worked as a paramedic for over 36 years. While retired for >3 years, I still maintain my certification.

Speaking from first hand knowledge of the situation, the articles from the Minneapolis Star Tribune were so full of factual errors that its hard to know where to start. To begin with, City of Minneapolis staff were monitoring police body cams and ran across footage of medics administering...