Officer having anxiety attack took ambulance sent for man dying from police shooting, report says (Connecticut)

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https://apnews.com/article/police-shooting-connecticut-892f366b847d9443a2bc3e3569a092dc

A man who was shot by police and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for an ambulance after an officer having a “mild anxiety attack” took the first one that arrived at the scene, according to a newly released state investigation.

Dyshan Best, 39, was shot in the back last year as he fled from officers in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A report released Tuesday by the state’s inspector general found that the shooting was justified because Best had a gun in his hand and the officer pursuing him had reasons to fear for his own safety. But the report raised questions about what took place after the March 31 shooting, which left Best, who was Black, bleeding with severe internal injuries.

The first ambulance called to take Best to the hospital arrived at the scene at 6:02 p.m., about 14 minutes after the shooting. However, at the urging of other officers, that ambulance was used to take away a white police officer, Erin Perrotta, who had been involved in the foot chase, the report said.

Paramedics reported that Perrotta declined treatment in the ambulance. “I am fine, I just needed to get out of here,” she said, according to the report. Another officer described Perrotta at the time as “visibly hysterical (crying and breathing rapidly) and had blood all over her uniform,” the report said.

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1. Suspect shot in the back? This stinks

[malaise]

2. WTF?

The entire system is messed up everywhere

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3. She also managed to make women look weak

along with all the rest of this clusterfuck. Anxiety attack my ass.

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4. oh, male cops are pretty good at that too.

Any time you see a report of a local cop requiring narcan because he touched one (1) fentanyl, you can bet folding money it was a panic attack.