In police departments across the country, officers are dangerously, violently, and oftentimes illegally injecting individuals with ketamine. The results can be deadly. A thread on this disturbing practice:
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A report found that "[i]n many cases, the individual being detained or arrested was not only handcuffed, but strapped down on a stretcher in an ambulance before receiving ketamine." Multiple individuals had to be intubated after being injected.https://www.startribune.com/at-urging-of-police-hennepin-emts-subdued-dozens-with-powerful-sedative/485607381/ …
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In 2019, police in Mount Pleasant, SC called emergency services and demanded they inject James C. Britt with ketamine. At that point, police had already restrained Britt with handcuffs and leg shackles and had their knees pressed on his neck and back for 15 minutes.
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After being injected with ketamine, Britt's heart stopped. Britt never regained consciousness. Medical examiners ruled his death a homicide.https://www.postandcourier.com/news/mount-pleasant-mans-ketamine-related-death-in-police-custody-under-investigation/article_8b07f4de-59ae-11ea-adad-2f0e6f56d779.html …
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In Colorado, there were 902 incidents in a two-and-a-half year span where police departments called medics to administer ketamine. More than 150 of these incidents ended with serious complications, many of which required intubation & the use of ventilatorshttps://coloradosun.com/2020/07/23/ketamine-use-paramedics-elijah-mclain/ …
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In Colorado, this dangerous practice is justified as being necessary to deal with people suffering "excited delirium." What exactly is excited delirium? A made up condition often used to justify police violence:https://twitter.com/AAPolicyForum/status/1290456617960579076 …
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Paul Applebaum, a past president of the American Psychiatry Association has asked “if excited delirium was a real and discrete diagnostic category, one would tend to see it arise in other places, and other circumstance ... Why is it only in police encounters that this occurs[?]"
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In a St. Paul suburb, a whistleblower has filed a lawsuit alleging that “symbiotic relationship between EMS and police officers has created room for police officers to coerce paramedics to administer Ketamine on unwilling subjects.”https://theintercept.com/2020/08/25/ketamine-police-use-minnesota/ …
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Last week two major medical organizations issued a statement "firmly oppos[ing] the use of ketamine or any other sedative/hypnotic agent to chemically incapacitate someone solely for a law enforcement purpose and not for a legitimate medical reason."https://www.emergencyphysicians.org/press-releases/2020/8-26-20-american-college-of-emergency-physicians-and-american-society-of-anesthesiologists-issue-joint-statement-on-ketamine-use …
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One of the most violent and insidious aspects of police use of involuntary ketamine injections is how often they're used against people who are already restrained. The police murder of Elijan McClain is one tragic example.https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/elijah-mcclain-injected-with-ketamine.html …
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"I just can't breathe correctly" were Elijah McClain's last words as he was already handcuffed and had been placed in a chokehold by officers who had called paramedics to inject him with ketamine. After he was injected, officers slapped him to make sure he was unconscious.
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McClain went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance and never regained consciousness. The officers who murdered him were cleared of wrongdoing and the coroner's report attempted to blame McClain for his own death.https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/the-killing-of-elijah-mcclain-everything-we-know.html …
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Max Johnson was suffering a diabetic seizure when his girlfriend called for help. EMS and MPD officers who arrived refused to believe that Johnson only needed sugar to stabilize his condition. They instead injected him with ketamine.https://www.startribune.com/ketamine-shot-sends-man-to-icu-renews-calls-for-probe/571997552/ …
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Johnson ended up spending two days on a ventilator. His partner wrote "This happened because Max is a 6’5” Black man. My whiteness was not enough to save him from the Hennepin Healthcare EMS and MPD’s egregious racism and life-threatening decisions."
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