WonderWheelerDec 21, 2022
Ken Armstrong
"Three victims who emerged from the school with a pulse later died. In the case of two of those victims, critical resources were not available when medics expected they would be, delaying hospital treatment..."
@propublica, Texas Tribune, Washington Post #uvalde #uvaldemassacre
https://www.propublica.org/article/uvalde-emt-medical-response
Records Reveal Medical Response Further Delayed Care for Uvalde Victims

Previously unreleased video, audio and interviews show for the first time how the medical response faltered after police finally confronted the Robb Elementary shooter.

ProPublica
Dec 20, 2022 at 6:55pmWeb
Show threadJustathoughtDec 20, 2022
@bykenarmstrong
This is heartbreaking. On the EMS side- there's been a push to change response and have training to wear vests/protection and actually go in right behind/with LEO/PD and treat as you go. There's been major improvement in getting transfusable blood out to the field (sounds like they had some in the helicopters). WTF?
Also communication issues have been known since WTC bombing, reinforced during 9/11. School and mass shootings- since Columbine. Again WTF??
Show threadInfiniteOneDec 21, 2022
@bykenarmstrong @ProPublica Uvalde and Texas will go bankrupt on the civil lawsuits.
Show threadBobDec 21, 2022
@HumanityExists @bykenarmstrong @ProPublica You don't think qualified immunity will protect them?
Show threadInfiniteOneDec 21, 2022
@bobmueller @bykenarmstrong @ProPublica I wouldn’t think civilly, but I’m not an attorney.
Show threadWonderKittenDec 21, 2022
@bykenarmstrong so horrible so hard to read
Show threadChris ThomasDec 21, 2022

@bykenarmstrong jesus...

It's bad enough that active shooter protocols require (actually responsive) cops to run past survivors on the way to find and stop the gunman.

Asking them to do it with insufficient or ill-equipped EMS waiting for the all-clear is just cruelty borne of negligent greed.