Christopher
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They probably didn't have one. They were off-duty, moonlighting as security guards. Which actually makes me wonder if they were even supposed to engage him physically.
Yeesh...so some moonlighting folks did this? Talk about a System Failure.
Call 911, wait for the folks on duty to handle it...better yet, don't moonlight and you won't get put into these situations.
CFal said:Pre-existing conditions contributed to his death, it's certainly a tragedy but I don't see how the deputies are responsible.
You could argue EMS was contributory due to multiple failed attempts to secure an airway (I have no idea how they tried, but they noted it was "difficult" to put a "breathing tube" in place...which given how ridiculously uneducated the media is[1] I have a hard time knowing what they really did).
Long and short of it is this probably wouldn't have happened if we took a ride in a retrospectowagon and chose another path. The likelihood of that path being taken by other similarly trained individuals in the same situation is what we should look at.
I'd chance to wager this would have gone poorly no matter the jurisdiction.
[1] They're roughly as uneducated about EMS as EMS is about medicine. It is often hard to tell which one is worse.