Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "Drunk Man Attempts a Disastrous Move During Arrest" video.
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This is infuriating - dumb cops! Take the poor guy to the damn hospital without delay, like he's begging you from the start. This was clearly a genuine medical emergency, but a mental one. If he'd been stopped speeding to the hospital with heavy bleeding, they'd have put him in their patrol car and rushed him to the ER immediately, no questions asked!
I felt his pain during the sobriety tests that went on and on - what was the damn point? A self confessed drug addict (experiencing an episode/crisis), can't perform one of those tests with zero alcohol in his system - because he's a drug addict! And he could have later challenged the legitimacy of the test anyway, due to the mental health crisis he was experiencing at that time which they were well aware of!
The man was clearly mentally very vulnerable. Better police officers would have read the situation more accurately and prioritised getting him to hospital. Once there, they could have arranged a blood alcohol test - which is foolproof and doesn't put him through all those crazily inappropriate sobriety tests.
This is one police bodycam where the officers got it wrong, and the member of the public deserves every sympathy. He clearly had a partner somewhere who loves him, so it's disappointing he was subsequently booked for domestic violence. That changes my view of him somewhat.
Remember my friends, when you've hit rock bottom, the only way is UP!
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