Last month, Sydney policewoman Amy Scott was hailed by locals as a heroine when she confronted a knife-wielding assailant who killed six people at a mall and shot her dead.
The knife-wielding man killed six people in a random place in public, including a nine-month-old baby, and injured nine others.
It was noted that female police officer Amy performed CPR on the injured people at the scene, including the gangster who tried to fight back with a weapon in the previous second, but was shot down by her.
Law enforcement has speed and temperature, and Amy Scott instantly became a representative of the police community of humanized law enforcement.
The practice of the police shooting the offender first and then performing CPR on the offender is not uncommon in countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.
"In every video I've seen that involves the use of force by the police, once the scene is safe, the police provide assistance such as CPR until the medical staff come to the rescue," said Seth Dietrie, the prosecutor. ”
It can be said that this is the routine operation of foreign police, and it has also become a lingering mystery in the minds of many netizens.
- Why do police officers do CPR after firing multiple shots at someone with homicidal intent?
- Why do police officers often shoot criminals, just to frantically administer first aid to save them?
There is no shortage of speculation on the Quora forums that this process of making people die is purely a PR exercise.
The reason given by netizen @ScottPhelps is, "In the Internet era of information explosion, everyone may take videos anywhere and upload them to the Internet, which will lead to widespread dissemination and public opinion risks." ”
"For criminals whose chests have been beaten through a sieve, CPR is unlikely to have the effect of reviving the dead, or even make people die faster."
"But to the viewer, this slice of the video looks good and human."
- Why did the police shoot the suspect multiple times and then administer first aid knowing that the suspect was completely dead?
- The LAPD's body camera shows officers using CPR to help gunmen suspects
In fact, when a police officer has to shoot someone, the purpose is not to kill the other person, but to eliminate the immediate deadly threat.
Unless it's a predatory terrorist attack, the tactics will be different.
If the threat can be eliminated by non-lethal means, the police will usually try.
But sometimes shooting a suspect is the only way to get the other person to stop threatening someone's safety.
As for what some netizens said, the police often shot the suspect several times in the chest and abdomen, probably knowing that the other party had been sent to see God by himself, and then ran to give first aid, which they classified as formalism.
A retired police chief explained, "U.S. police officers are trained to double-click, i.e., shoot twice at the center of the chest of an armed suspect." ”
It stands to reason that the police simply knock the opponent to the ground so that they cannot return fire or continue to hurt others.
It's a pity that some policemen have a limited level of marksmanship, and the use of bullet tactics to win by quantity, and then do cardiopulmonary resuscitation according to the process, will inevitably cause misunderstanding from the outside world.
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"Even though the perpetrators were shot and fell, they remain a threat and the police will not provide first aid until they are disarmed and handcuffed." Retired Michigan Deputy Sheriff Rich Rabe added.
"Once the threat is cleared, the police, as first responders, have a responsibility to provide assistance to all injured persons, whether in custody or not."
This is also part of the police job, which is protection and service.
"The officer used lethal force against a lethal threat and then tried to save that person's life. It sounds ironic, but it's true. "Otherwise, it would be classified as an additional judicial killing." ”
Some people are also curious about whether the police will perform mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration when performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
The answer is no, because there is a risk of infection.
Think about it, the first second of a shootout may kill the other party at any time, or be killed by the other party, and the next second of mouth-to-mouth contact at 0 distance, it is too exciting.
According to the American Heart Association's methods taught to lay first responders, officers can perform chest compressions with just their hands and not touch their lips until professional ambulance personnel arrive at the scene.
However, there are also police officers who use face protectors, i.e. pouches with plastic sheets and check valves, for first aid.
In many places, there are no clear rules on whether or not police officers should perform CPR on a suspect after shooting him down, depending on the difference between different police agencies or states.
Isaac King, a police officer from Colorado, revealed, "None of my district or department policies require it, but most of us will actually provide assistance. ”
The Ohio Supreme Court only discusses cases where a police officer has a legitimate reason to use lethal force, but does not impose a legal obligation on police to provide assistance to a person who has been shot or wounded.
There is also no law in Brooklyn, New York, that requires police officers to perform CPR — either in the face of suspects shot by police or ordinary people seeking help from the police.
In other words, it is not illegal, but it does not affect the police who cannot do CPR and face departmental charges.
Police officer Alfonso Méndez was suspended for 30 days.
He failed to perform CPR on a little girl who had an asthma attack, and the girl was pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital.
"The officer watched my daughter fall to the ground in front of him and didn't make any movement, he just looked at my wife and giggled and told her 'I'm not going to do CPR.'" The girl's father said bitterly in the interview center.
British police climb higher up the tree of first aid skills such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation than the United States.
All authorised firearms officers in the UK are trained in a range of first aid, including dealing with ballistic trauma, defibrillation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and oxygen therapy.
In the UK, police officers not only carry military dressings, which are used to plug gunshot wounds and slow bleeding; If necessary, a tube can be inserted to keep your airway open.
This skill is both practical and mixed for me, as I have just finished my time off and I can't breathe at my desk.