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NYPD Officer Suspended Without Pay for Refusing to Help Dying Girl

By Neil Shous, Esq.

NYPD Officer Alfonso Mendez was suspended without pay when he allegedly stood by and did nothing but harass a mother who was trying to get her dying 11-year-old daughter to the hospital. Briana Ojeda suffered a major asthma attack at a park less than a mile away from a hospital. While her mother was frantically trying to drive her daughter to the E.R., she accidentally turned the wrong way down a one-way street and hit another car. Mendez approached and as Briana?s mother pled for help, the officer denied knowing CPR (a life-saving technique that all departmental officers are trained in). Instead of helping, he issued the mother a ticket for the accident. By the time the mother got Briana to the emergency room, it was too late?she was dead...continue to full post

Full post as published by California Criminal Defense Blog on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).