Rochester, New York: Cop Charles LoTempio Assaults, Arrests EMT Rushing Patient to ER, Because Ambulance Door Dinged His Car

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WATCH: Cop Assaults, Arrests EMT Rushing Patient to ER, Because the Ambulance Door Dinged His Car

19 July 2022

The Rochester police department is no stranger to controversy. Over the years, their officers have been recorded killing people with hoods over their heads, pepper spraying toddlers, beating people to death, and tormenting young children. Now, they can add harassing and kidnapping an EMT to their long list of bad behaviors. A Rochester cop has been put on desk duty and is currently under investigation after he was captured on video assaulting and subsequently arresting an EMT as she unloaded a patient in a medical emergency. The officer’s justification for the act? The EMT accidentally dinged his car door while ...

WATCH: Cop Assaults, Arrests EMT Rushing Patient to ER, Because the Ambulance Door Dinged His Car

His patrol car was blocking the EMT entrance to the ER.

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Police officer suspended after handcuffing EMT at hospital

20 July 2022

A police investigator in western New York has been suspended after he handcuffed an emergency medical technician in a hospital emergency room after she bumped his vehicle while unloading a patient from an ambulance. The suspension was announced by city police Monday, a week after EMT Lekia Smith was handcuffed at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. Security video obtained by WHEC-TV shows the investigator backing Smith, a Black woman, into a corner as she stood beside a patient on a stretcher. He grabs her arm, cuffs her hands behind her back and takes her outside. Police said the incident was ...

Police officer suspended after handcuffing EMT at hospital

A police investigator in western New York has been suspended after he handcuffed an emergency medical technician in a hospital emergency room after she bumped his vehicle while unloading a patient from an ambulance.

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Police investigator suspended after handcuffing Black EMT who bumped car unloading a patient

21 July 2022

A Rochester police investigator handcuffed an emergency medical technician after she bumped his vehicle at a hospital while unloading a patient from an ambulance. The investigator has been suspended with pay and the EMT is now seeking legal action. The EMT, Lekia Smith, was also taken to the police car and questioned in the backseat before being released, according to her attorney. The attorney, Donald Thompson, challenged claims from the police union, the Locust Club, that the EMT and the investigator came to terms after the incident at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. "The discussion that was had was in ...

Police investigator suspended after handcuffing Black EMT who bumped car unloading a patient

Rochester, N.Y., police investigator Charles LoTempio handcuffed EMT Lekia Smith after she bumped his car while unloading a patient from an ambulance.

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Rochester police investigator suspended after handcuffing Black EMT at hospital, department says

21 July 2022

A Rochester, New York, police investigator has been suspended with pay after he was seen on surveillance video pushing a Black EMT and handcuffing her at a hospital early last week, according to Carlos Alvarado, a spokesperson for the police department. Police announced the suspension earlier this week, updating a statement Rochester Police Chief David Smith made last week that called the July 11 incident "deeply concerning" and said he has "high expectations for all members of the Rochester Police Department." "As a result of this interaction at Strong Hospital, I have directed our Professional Standards Section to initiate an ...

Rochester police investigator suspended after handcuffing Black EMT at hospital, department says

A Rochester, New York, police investigator has been suspended with pay after he was seen on surveillance video pushing a Black EMT and handcuffing her at a hospital early last week, according to Carlos Alvarado, a spokesperson for the police department.

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Brickbat: What's the2 Big Emergency?

21 July 2022

A Rochester, New York, police officer, who wasn't named by media, has been placed on administrative duty pending an investigation of an incident in which he handcuffed and placed into a police car an EMT who was working in the emergency room at Strong Memorial Hospital. The officer was parked in an ambulance bay, and the EMT reportedly hit his car with the door of an ambulance while unloading a patient. The officer tried to stop the EMT and get her information, but she continued to take the patient into the emergency room. The officer followed her in, grabbed her ...

Brickbat: What's the Big Emergency?

A Rochester, New York, police officer, who wasn't named by media, has been placed on administrative duty pending an investigation...

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