Mountie fined for punching diabetic
25-Sep-2007, 12:11 PM
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Mountie fined for punching diabetic
Does anyone here have a job where you can walk up to someone you're mad at and punch in the face, and still keep your job?!?! Shouldn't this sort of thing have harsher punishments for people we trust to carry around guns?
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/n...9-79ba7d1003cc
VANCOUVER - An RCMP disciplinary board has fined a Kamloops officer two days' pay after he punched a diabetic man in the head because he thought, incorrectly, that the man was driving drunk.
In a recent decision, the RCMP board found Constable Burke Huschi used "excessive force" without first investigating the circumstances of the situation.
On June 30, 2005, a blue pickup ran through the gate at a parking control booth at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, crossed a four-lane highway without stopping and then came to rest.
Two nurses who witnessed the incident went up to the truck and saw the driver, Howard Oakland, staring straight ahead, his hands on the steering wheel.
After the man failed to respond to their questions, they suspected he might have a medical condition. However, when Const. Huschi arrived on the scene, he "brushed past the witnesses without giving them an opportunity to speak and went directly to the driver's door," said the board's decision.
Const. Huschi demanded Mr. Oakland exit the truck and, when the driver failed to comply, handcuffed one of his wrists and tried to pull him out. "Const. Huschi then struck the driver once in the head and again on the upper arms and chest," the decision states.
At this point, a second officer arrived and the two were able to pull Mr. Oakland out of the truck.
"At this point, a diabetic alert card was discovered in the driver's effects," the decision states.
"The driver was assessed by the [paramedics] and found to have low blood sugar," it continues.
Const. Huschi was eventually charged with assault and, on Oct. 17, 2006, he was found guilty and given a conditional discharge -- meaning he won't have a criminal record as long as he takes anger management counselling.
Const. Huschi filed an appeal, which was dismissed.
In July, he appeared before a RCMP disciplinary board made up of three senior officers.
The board found Const. Huschi was guilty of "disgraceful" conduct because he resorted to force without first speaking to those at the scene or advising Mr. Oakland he was under arrest.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/n...9-79ba7d1003cc
VANCOUVER - An RCMP disciplinary board has fined a Kamloops officer two days' pay after he punched a diabetic man in the head because he thought, incorrectly, that the man was driving drunk.
In a recent decision, the RCMP board found Constable Burke Huschi used "excessive force" without first investigating the circumstances of the situation.
On June 30, 2005, a blue pickup ran through the gate at a parking control booth at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, crossed a four-lane highway without stopping and then came to rest.
Two nurses who witnessed the incident went up to the truck and saw the driver, Howard Oakland, staring straight ahead, his hands on the steering wheel.
After the man failed to respond to their questions, they suspected he might have a medical condition. However, when Const. Huschi arrived on the scene, he "brushed past the witnesses without giving them an opportunity to speak and went directly to the driver's door," said the board's decision.
Const. Huschi demanded Mr. Oakland exit the truck and, when the driver failed to comply, handcuffed one of his wrists and tried to pull him out. "Const. Huschi then struck the driver once in the head and again on the upper arms and chest," the decision states.
At this point, a second officer arrived and the two were able to pull Mr. Oakland out of the truck.
"At this point, a diabetic alert card was discovered in the driver's effects," the decision states.
"The driver was assessed by the [paramedics] and found to have low blood sugar," it continues.
Const. Huschi was eventually charged with assault and, on Oct. 17, 2006, he was found guilty and given a conditional discharge -- meaning he won't have a criminal record as long as he takes anger management counselling.
Const. Huschi filed an appeal, which was dismissed.
In July, he appeared before a RCMP disciplinary board made up of three senior officers.
The board found Const. Huschi was guilty of "disgraceful" conduct because he resorted to force without first speaking to those at the scene or advising Mr. Oakland he was under arrest.
01-Oct-2007, 12:03 PM
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01-Oct-2007, 01:32 PM
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if you mean low blood sugar as an episode, or hypoglycemia then yea, the guy would have probably paniced, and then eventually passed out. but still the cop was weird.
01-Oct-2007, 02:01 PM
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LOL i doubt it, though stress is shown to raise blood sugar levels. not sure about pain or adrenaline. but tbh for someone who is going into a hypoglycemic state, a bit of stress isn't going to cut it they need sugar and fast, hypoglycemia for a diabetic is an overdose of insulin basically, and will kill them if they don't get sugar within a 10 min or so of passing out.
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