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Why do you think the mainstream media has downplayed this?
For example, on Google news, US it isn't on that page but if you search david morales- there are 845 articles??

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why do you think the mainstream media has downplayed this?
For example, on Google news, US it isn't on that page but if you search david morales- there are 845 articles???

No idea.

It seems to me, based on what has been reported in the article, and based on my own experiences as a former EMT in New York City, that there was a major breakdown in communications between EMS and the cops. Why EMS was waiting for clearance, I don't know. It could be that with such a large crowd to get through, the EMTs didn't think they should move without police escort. It's possible. But had it been me, I would have blared lights and sirens, and used the PA to get the crowd to move.

Seems to me that if the cops didn't perform CPR, they were wrong as well. The excuse that "they might have made things worse" is bogus. While the patient is breathing, yes, they should have waited for EMTs. But once he stopped breathing, any other injuries he might have had were subsidiary to keeping him alive. Getting oxygen into his system and keeping his heart beating is the paramount priority... even if it causes additional injury. Injuries caused by CPR can be healed or else one can learn to live with the injuries. But dead is forever. It is one of the things they teach EMTs, and should have taught those cops as well. And probably did. So I don't buy that excuse.

As for why this isn't in the national press, I have no idea. Perhaps the press isn't as sure of their facts as they would wish and (for once) is waiting for corroboration before going national.

Or perhaps it is just happenstance... some stories become national issues, while others just fade for no apparent reason. Why are Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fisher still in the media 15 years after their attempted murder of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, while other equally "rivetting" stories of murder and attempted murder for sex never even hit the papers? It's just one of those things.

Or perhaps there really is an attempt by the cops and EMS to clamp down on the story.

I don't know, and it is likely we never will know.

I will say this: it isn't all that often that the mainstream media holds off on going after a cop or EMT when they think they have the goods. A case in point is the Sean Bell shooting. This time, the media seems to be going against their usual modus operandi.

Elliot

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The story as I have followed and understand is that at 930 pm the driver hit a child [ age ?] and then they were attacked by a number of people [ the race and number has not been clear or not emphasized ] . In the process, the passenger of the car was BEATEN to death.

Yet in this article the put the onus or blame on ems and the police and not the perpetrators of this horrific act.
Ems protocol is to ensure their safety first, so they waited for police to clear a crowd.



Compare this coverage to the Imus, or Duke Lacross stories??




Appreciate your input ET




Grace and Peace

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What happened to Morales pales in comparison with what happened to this Hispanic lady who was taken to an Afro American hospital and permitted to die on the hospital lobby floor.


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CHATTER: DEATH IN THE E.R. LOBBY
Established as a black hospital - for blacks, by blacks. All black doctors, etc. And they let an hispanic woman bleed to death on the floor in the waiting...
Chatterbyrondavis.blogspot.com/2007/06/death-in-er...

CHATTER: DEATH IN THE E.R. LOBBY


Sad since a Hispanic exposing himself or herself to such danger [which should by now be more than obvious and accepted as a given] is avoidable with a bit of cautious evasive action. Unfortunately, assumption of fair treatment or lack of animosity based on ethnicity can prove lethal. Well, I guess that's two less immigrants for you. But with a bit more Lou Dobbs type agitation maybe things will pick up--right?